The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage
The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344404
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344404
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
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:
- The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Marden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74635 44551
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 July 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7444
5/74
MARDEN
HIGH STREET (south-west side)
The Old Seed Shop and Shipton Cottage
(Formerly listed as J.H.Sutton & Son Ltd. and house to right. HIGH STREET)
GV
II
House and shop. C15 or early C16, with later C16 alterations and late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick, first floor tile-hung. First floor of right gable end weatherboarded. Plain tile roof.
Approximately five timber framed bays; possibly a single bay open hall with two bay storeyed ends. Two storeys. Moulded wooden fillet to base of tile-hanging. Boxed eaves. Roof hipped to right. Red and grey brick stack in rear slope of roof towards left end. Irregular fenestration of five casements; three two-light and two three-light. Two shallow rectangular bay windows to ground floor, one towards left and one towards centre, and one three-light casement towards right end. Half-glazed door towards left end, another towards centre, and ribbed door to house towards right end.
Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Moulded beam to left end of central bay, with tension braces to partition above it. Differently-moulded later C16 axial beam to same bay. Plain beam morticed for partition, to right end of bay. Long shaped jowls to principal posts. Cambered tie-beam between left end bays. Shutter groove and edge-halved scarf joint to rear wall to left.
Listing NGR: TQ7463844548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174732
- 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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