Quarry House
QUARRY HOUSE, 49, THE QUARRIES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344366
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Quarry House
- Statutory Address:
- QUARRY HOUSE, 49, THE QUARRIES
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344366
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Quarry House
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUARRY HOUSE, 49, THE QUARRIES
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:
- QUARRY HOUSE, 49, THE QUARRIES
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 77219 51707
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA THE QUARRIES TQ 75 SE (North side)
1/59 No. 49 (Quarry House) (formerly listed as Nos 49 and 23.5.67 51)
II
House, formerly cottages, now house. Later C16, with late C16 or early C17 addition to right and with C20 alterations. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Ground floor of right end bay and of left gable end rebuilt in stone. Mid- to-late C16 lobby-entry plan house of 2 timber-framed bays to left of stack bay and one to right; the left end bay altered or renewed in C17. Two further timber-framed bays of unequal length added to right in late C16 or early C17. 2 storeys, attic and cellars on stone plinth. Broadly-spaced studding. 2 tension braces to left end and one of thin scantling to right end. Half- hipped roof. Wall-plates at right end project, carrying verges up to jettied half hip. Brick ridge stack towards centre. Truncated stack with slender projecting stone base to right gable end. 2 gabled dormers. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 2-light and three 3-light, some with pegged cills. Blocked 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with diamond subsidiary mullions to bay to right of stack. Blocked door under stack, half-glazed door towards left end, and ribbed door under canopy to right of centre. Short rendered rear return wing to left and similar but lower rear wing to right of stack. Rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Mortices for diamond mullion windows in both sections of house. Central stack with 2 stone fireplaces to ground floor and 2 to first floor, one moulded, rest plain chamfered, all but one with wooden bressumers. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces, and diminishing principal rafters. Vertical queen-struts to collars to former right gable end of left section. Heavier-scantling timber to left section.
Listing NGR: TQ7721951707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174523
- 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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