The Woolpack Inn
THE WOOLPACK INN, BENOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320378
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Woolpack Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE WOOLPACK INN, BENOVER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320378
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Woolpack Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WOOLPACK INN, BENOVER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE WOOLPACK INN, BENOVER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yalding
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 70478 48310
Details
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 74 NW (north-east side) 4/47 The Woolpack Inn GV II
Public House. Late c17 or early c18, possibly with earlier core and with Cl9 additions and facade. Rendered brick to ground floor, first floor hung with fishscale tiles, and border of plain tiles. Plain tile roof. Approximately 4 timber-framed bays and narrow ?stack bay. 2 storeys. Rendered plinth. Two right end bays project forwards slightly, but with same height eaves as rest. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right. Red brick ridge stack with recessed round-headed front panel, to right of centre (to right end of left section). Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; nothing to left end, one three-light towards centre, one two- light under stack, and one three-light to right section. Three paned casements to ground floor, including one to left end. Door with four flush panels, in lean-to porch, in angle between left and right sections under stack. Small rendered lean-to to left gable end. Single-storey addition to right, partly plain-tiled, partly rendered, with gabled plain tile roof; right end of it juts forwards, with right gable end stack. Door with four flush panels and flat bracketed hood to left end of addition, and another towards right end. Narrower parallel rear range to left, with brick ground floor and weatherboarded first floor to left gable end, lower eaves and plain- tile roof half-hipped to left. Interior: only partly inspected. Some exposed framing to ground floor. Chamfered axial beams to bays to left and right of stack. Brick fireplaces, that to left in English bond, with low chamfered bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ7047848310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174846
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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