QUARRY HOUSE

QUARRY HOUSE, 49, THE QUARRIES

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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:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 174523
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.