Clare Cottage
27, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336280
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Clare Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 27, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336280
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Clare Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CLARE COTTAGE, 25, WEST STREET
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:
- 27, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CLARE COTTAGE, 25, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrietsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 86604 52748
Details
HARRIETSHAM WEST STREET TQ 85 SE (south side)
4/66 No. 25 (Clare Cottage) and 27 GV II House or house row, now offices. C16, late C17 or early C18, and late C20. Ground floor painted brick, first floor tile- hung, right section with plain and fishscale tiles. Plain tile roof. Late C17 or early C18 3-bay range parallel to street and C16 cross-wing to left. 3 bays deep. 2 storeys, with garret to cross-wing, on stone plinth. Roof of cross-wing half-hipped. One brick ridge stack either end of right range. Irregular fenestration of one single-light garret casement to wing and one 20-pane glazing bar sash to first floor. Right range has 3 three-light casements. 2 panelled doors with flat bracketted hoods; one to left end of wing and one to left of centre of right range. Plain boarded door to right of centre of right range. Plain boarded door to right of centre of same range. Interior: Wing: probably originally jettied to front. Large fireplace on right side wall of ground floor with herringbone brickwork and elongated 4-centred arched bressumer with leaves to spandrels. Arched wall-braces. Roof raised and rebuilt with side purlins. Exposed timbers in both ranges.
Listing NGR: TQ8660352744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173799
- 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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