Thorn Cottage
THORN COTTAGE, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344433
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Thorn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THORN COTTAGE, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344433
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORN COTTAGE, PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THORN COTTAGE, THORN ROAD
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:
- THORN COTTAGE, PARK ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THORN COTTAGE, THORN ROAD
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 75912 43064
Details
TQ 74 SE MARDEN THORN ROAD (south-west side)
4/122 Thorn Cottage (formerly listed as Thorn Farm Cottage) 23.5.67 II House. Mid C16, with late C16 or early C17 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick. Banded plain and fishscale tiles to first floor to left of stack. First floor under and to right of stack with exposed framing and plaster infilling. Tarred weatherboarding to rear. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays, floored, with narrow fifth bay to left end. 2 storeys. Broadly-spaced studding with arch braces to right end bay. Narrow left end bay apparently roofed as lean-to against higher gable of rest of house. Roof gabled to right with exposed plain crown post with two foot- braces, and with wall-plates jettied to carry one further rafter couple with collar-purlin extended under collar. Brick ridge stack to right end of second bay from right. Irregular fenestration of 3 small wooden casements; one three-light towards left, one two-light towards centre and one two-light to right. Shallow late C16 or early C17 eight-light chamfered mullioned and transomed oriel window to right gable end of each floor, that to first floor on shaped brackets, that to ground floor on painted brick plinth, both with two-light frieze- windows with diamond subsidiary mullions. Ribbed door under small open porch to left gable end. Short rear lean-to to left (with brick in rat-trap bond), and another towards right end. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Chamfered axial beams and unchamfered joists to ground-floor rooms. Evidence for full-height partition to truss to left of stack. Unsooted roof with plain crown posts with foot braces, and lapped collars. Broad C17 brick stack.
Listing NGR: TQ7591243064
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174785
- 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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