Swiss Cottage
SWISS COTTAGE, BERESFORDS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344354
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Swiss Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SWISS COTTAGE, BERESFORDS HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344354
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Swiss Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWISS 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:
- SWISS 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 76904 51842
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA BERESFORDS HILL TQ 75 SE (East side)
1/4 Swiss Cottage (formerly listed 23.5.67 under Boughton Quarries)
GV II
House. C17 with earlier core, later additions and early C19 alterations. Timber framed, rendered, with plain tile roof. Main range 2 storeys, cross- wing 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Rendered plinth. C17 cross-wing to left, flush with facade; eaves higher than those of main range and jettied on moulded bressumer with shaped brackets. Moulded bargeboards to gable of wing. Similar gable immediately to right of stack, rising above eaves of main range on shaped brackets. Gable to right end of main range. Rendered multi-flued stack in front slope of roof immediately to right of wing. Rendered rear stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one pair of 12-pane sashes with central mullion to wing, and one under main-range gable. Similar pair of 8-light sashes to right of main-range gable. One 2-light casement under stack. Rendered rectangular flat-roofed single-storey porch under stack, with half-glazed door with cambered head and margin lights. Short 2-storey rendered rear wing to right. Interior: early-to-mid C19 fireplaces, grates and cornices. Curved C19 staircase with stick balusters. Clasped purlin roof to wing, with windbraces. A very small quantity of exposed framing.
Listing NGR: TQ7690451842
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174462
- 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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