Harpole

HARPOLE, HARPLE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1336269
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1977
List Entry Name:
Harpole
Statutory Address:
HARPOLE, HARPLE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1336269
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1977
List Entry Name:
Harpole
Statutory Address 1:
HARPOLE, HARPLE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HARPOLE, HARPLE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
Detling
National Grid Reference:
TQ 78585 58306

Details

TQ 75 NE DETLING HARPLE LANE (west side)

5/125 Harpole 21.6.77 II

House. C15 and C18. In 4 sections. Right section: C15. A fragment. Timber framed with cement rendering and plain tile roof. 2 storeys, first floor jettied to front and rear. Roof hipped to right and now gabled to left. Multiple brick ridge stack at left end. One unglazed first-floor window. Lean-to at right end with small projecting stack. Left and central sections: C18, with earlier fragment at right end. Painted brick with plain tile roof, right end possibly with timber-framed core. Set much lower than jettied section. 2 storeys. Roof gabled to left but with lean-to roof forming hip half way down gable. At right end, towards junction with jettied section, short section of relatively steeply pitched roof with ridge only slightly lower than that of jettied end. Rear elevation of this section now cement rendered, flush with plane of jetty. Front elevation encased by brick of left section. Projecting stone stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 2-light first-floor casements, 3 ground-floor casements with segmental heads. Plank door in lean-to at left end. Rear wing to centre of rear elevation. Late C18. Painted brick. 2 storeys with dentilled eaves cornice, roof hipped to rear. Brick stack towards rear end. 2 two- light casements and single-storey lean-to to north elevation.

Listing NGR: TQ7858558306

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
173633
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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