Forge Cottages
FORGE COTTAGES, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344438
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGES, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344438
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGES, MAIDSTONE 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:
- FORGE COTTAGES, MAIDSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettlestead
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68125 50852
Details
NETTLESTEAD MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 65 SE (West side) 1/12 Forge Cottages II
House, now house row. Late C17 or early C18, with later alterations. Ground floor painted brick, first floor tile-hung. Rendered first-floor gable to road. Plain tile roof. South-facing, built at right-angles to road. 2 storeys and attic. Half-hipped roof, with gablet to right. Later brick stack towards left end. Broad red brick stack set along ridge to right of centre. Two half-hipped dormers with two-light case- ments. Irregular fenestration of 3 three-light casements; one to left of left stack, one towards centre and one towards right end. Ribbed door between stacks. Boarded door to right end to Forge Cottage. Two-storey former stair turret to rear of "central" stack, tile-hung on first floor and with hipped plain-tile roof. Two-storey parallel rear range to left. Rear lean-to to right. Single-storey addition to right gable end, with rear wall flush with lean-to; painted brick, with weatherboarded gable, and plain-tile roof half-hipped to road. Further single-storey painted brick addition towards rear of right gable end of first addition, gabled to-road. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing, brick fireplace with wooden bressumer, and staggered butt purlin roof without queen struts to Forge Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ6813250847
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174811
- 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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