12-16, HIGH STREET
12-16, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344256
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 12-16, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12-16, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344256
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 12-16, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12-16, HIGH 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:
- 12-16, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 89792 52124
Details
LENHAM HIGH STREET TQ 8952 (west side)
10/177 Nos. 12-16 (even) 26.4.68. GV II
House, now house row. C15 with C16 alterations and late C19 facade. Timber-framed core. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick, first floor tile hung with alternate bands of plain and fishscale tiles. Plain tile roof. Left gable end weatherboarded on first floor and part of ground floor, rendered towards apex. Hall and cross-wing. Main range 1 1/2 storeys on plinth, wing 2 storeys. Projecting gabled cross-wing to right with plain bargeboards. Ground floor of main range built out to same plane as cross-wing, with plain-tiled pentice roof over. Right end of roof of main range hipped down to junction with wing. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left with 3 octagonal flues on corniced plinth. Irregular fenestration of two 3-light through dormers to main range and one 3-light casement to wing. 3 panelled doors, each up 3 steps, in panelled recesses; to Nos. 12 and 16 with flat bracketted hoods, and to No. 14, beneath stack, with reeded surround with patterns and flat corniced hood. Boarded door with segmental head to left end of No. 16. Interior No. 14 has moulded end of hall beam, and ogee braces on first floor. Exposed timbers of C15 and C16. Other blocked features. Interiors of Nos. 12 and 16 not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8979152124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173912
- 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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