Postling Court
POSTLING COURT, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344197
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Postling Court
- Statutory Address:
- POSTLING COURT, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344197
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Postling Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- POSTLING COURT, THE 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:
- POSTLING COURT, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Postling
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 14567 39015
Details
TR 13 NW POSTLING THE STREET (West side)
3/60 Postling Court 7.8.84 GV II House, now sub-divided. Mid C17 with late C19 additions and alterations. Timber-framed. Ground floor clad and underbuilt with red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Exposed framing to first floor with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Main range, with short integral cross-wing to right, formerly projecting forwards slightly,end extended in late C19. 2 storeys and attics. Continuous jetty to main range, now underbuilt. Dropped tie- beam. First-floor framing unevenly divided into 2 panels per storey. Short curved tension braces. Hipped roof. 2 rear stacks. Projecting C17 brick stack in English bond to right gable end, with two diagonally-set flues on moulded plinth. Late C19 gabled dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded windows; one 2-light casement with top-lights, one single-light casement and one late C19 two-storey rectangular bay window with 4 casements and side lights to each floor. Late C19 panelled door under timber-framed porch to left end. Right wing extended forwards in late C19 with brick ground-floor, tile-hung above; hipped plain-tile roof and various canted leaded lights. Short single-storey addition to left leading to late C19 range at right-angles. Interior: exposed framing. Fragment of moulded fillet half-way up former front elevation of C17 right wing. Aligned butt purlin roof with queen struts to rafters and arch-braced interrupted tie-beams. Similar truss to C17 wing, but-with clasped purlins.
Listing NGR: TR1451339033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175637
- 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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