Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop
Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344400
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop
- Statutory Address:
- Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344400
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AU
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Staplehurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ7859943048
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 July 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7843
5/125
STAPLEHURST
HIGH STREET (east side)
Tanyard House and The Butchers Shop
(Formerly listed as Tanyard, and George Feltham, Butcher Tanyard, and George Feltham, Butcher)
GV
II
House and shop. C17 or earlier, possibly of two periods, with mid-to-late C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor rendered . Plain tile roof. Two storeys and attic. Section to left of stack slightly recessed, with lower midrail, and possibly with cut-back facade. Continuous jetty and boxed eaves to right section. Eaves of left section presently at about same height as right, but probably formerly lower; truncated tie-beam end visible to left. Exposed framing with arch-braces and possible window-cill to first floor of left gable end. Steeply-pitched hipped roof, with gablet to right. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to left of centre, to left end of right section. Projecting red and grey brick stack to right gable end. Rear stack to right. Small hipped dormer with two-light casement to right section. Irregular fenestration of three windows; one small two-light casement to left section, one two-pane and one six-pane sash to right section. Canted bay windows to ground floor under sashes. Panelled door up three steps to left end, and panelled door up two steps between the two bay windows. Short weatherboarded rear wing to left, with lower ridge and hipped roof. Short rear wing to right. Rectangular single-storey early C20 butcher's shop projecting forwards from junction of two sections.
Listing NGR: TQ7859943048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174591
- 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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