Rectory Cottage

RECTORY COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1344172
Date first listed:
15-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Rectory Cottage
Statutory Address:
RECTORY COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1344172
Date first listed:
15-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Rectory Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
RECTORY COTTAGE

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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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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:
RECTORY COTTAGE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:
Monks Horton
National Grid Reference:
TR 12265 40368

Details

TR 14 SW MONKS HORTON

1/31 Rectory Cottage

II

House, formerly rectory, now house. Early to mid C15 with mid C16 and later alterations, restored circa 1969. Timber framed, with brick and rendered infilling. Right hall bay clad with buff and purple brick in English bond. Brick gable ends. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with unequal length hall bays, and storeyed left end bay. Storeyed right end bay missing. 2 storeys. Stone plinth to left end bay. C20 studding to left end bay, with herringbone brick infilling. 2 tension braces to first floor of left hall bay. Left end bay jettied to front. Arch braces to flying wall-plate, that to right springing from brick. Solid bracket under central tie-beam. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Gable end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of three 2-light casements. Durns to left end of hall, with half-glazed door behind them. C20 brick rear wing to right. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded octagonal crown-post on replaced tie-beam. Fragment of large ovolo-moulded arch-brace remains towards base of principal post. Two hollow-chamfered 4-centred, almost pointed-arched service doorways to left end of hall. Mid-to-late C16 inserted hall floor with moulded beams and Joists.

Listing NGR: TR1226540368

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
175607
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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