Lock Cottage
LOCK COTTAGE, 3, LOCK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336239
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LOCK COTTAGE, 3, LOCK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336239
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOCK COTTAGE, 3, LOCK LANE
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:
- LOCK COTTAGE, 3, LOCK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boxley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74866 58173
Details
TQ 75 NW BOXLEY LOCK LANE (west side) Sandling 4/72 No 3 Lock Cottage
G.V. II
House associated with lock. Mid C19. Random galletted ragstone with ragstone quoins, gault brick stacks and plain tile roof. T-plan with head of T at right angles to lane and stem at right angles to river. Further wing forming single storey store and possibly office to rear of and recessed from gable end of stem, parallel to and projecting beyond head of T. Elevation to Lane: right section (head) 2 storeys, on a stone plinth which exists only at the gable end. Carved bargeboards with pendant, crested ridge tiles and central corbelled, filletted ridge stack. 2-light first-floor casement with smaller light above in chamfered stone architraves under stepped hood-mould with label stops. 3-light casement on ground floor with 3 top lights and relieving arch over. Left section (stem) set lower; one storey and garret. No windows. Central, slightly projecting, gabled porch with carved bargeboards and pendant. Contains chamfered stone architrave of 2 orders, the inner deeply recessed and now containing a 3-light window in the arch with ragstone below. Another door adjoins immediately to right in angle with right section, set under porch formed by projection of slope of roof supported on stone brackets. Ribbed and boarded door reached up flight of steps starting level with right gable, with short octagonal pillar on left side. Elevation to river; stem of T has projecting eaves with plain bargeboards and pendant. Store wing one storey and attic with carved bargeboards and pendant to left gable. Dormer at right end. Pointed arched door to attic in gable. Arched doorway with ribbed and boarded door to centre of main elevation in slightly projecting porch with carved bargeboards and pendant.
Listing NGR: TQ7486658173
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173578
- 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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