Rock Cottage
ROCK COTTAGE, ATKINS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344353
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK COTTAGE, ATKINS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344353
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCK COTTAGE, ATKINS HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROCK COTTAGE, BERESFORDS HILL
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:
- ROCK COTTAGE, ATKINS HILL
- Statutory Address:
- ROCK COTTAGE, BERESFORDS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boughton Monchelsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76866 51889
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA ATKINS HILL TQ 75 SE (North side)
1/1 Rock Cottage (Formerly listed 23.5.67 as Rock Cottages, Boughton Quarries)
GV II*
House, formerly cottages, now house. Late C16. Timber-framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Possibly lobby entry plan. 4 timber-framed bays (including 2-bay principal room to left of stack), and stack bay. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Close-studded. Continuous jetty returning to right on moulded dragon post. Roof hipped to left with gablet, gabled to right. Multiple brick ridge stack in narrow second bay from right. Slender projecting brown brick stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements; three 3-light and one 2-light under stack. Evidence for oriel window to right hall bay. Rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window with lean-to roof and moulded coved base to first floor of right gable end. Similar 10-light oriel window on stone base under jetty below. C16 boarded door in moulded rectangular architrave to left end of left bay of principal room. Blocked door under stack. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded cross and axial beams to principal room on each floor. Newel staircase between stack and former front door. Shutter grooves. Dropped doorheads. 4 fireplaces to principal stack; those to principal room on each floor with moulded stone jambs and cambered bressumers, with moulded mantel-shelf to first floor, those to right end room on each floor entirely stone. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters. Jettying contrived without dragon-beam.
Listing NGR: TQ7686651889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174459
- 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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