Rose Cottages
ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, VICARAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348526
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, VICARAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348526
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, VICARAGE 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:
- ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, VICARAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yalding
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 69975 50252
Details
YALDING VICARAGE ROAD TQ 6950 (north side) 6/183 Nos. 1 and 2 Rose Cottages (formerly 23-5-67 listed as The Green) GV II*
Farmhouse, now house pair. C14 or early C15, with C19 facade. Timber framed, faced with tarred weatherboarding. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of two roughly equal-length bays and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Storeyed end bays jettied to front on solid-spandrel brackets, right jetty returning on a formerly moulded dragon post. Short brace under central tie-beam and to right end of flying wall-plate. Steeply pitched roof with gablets. Multiple red and grey brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of right hall bay, and slender projecting stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 3 paned casements; one two-light to each end bay and one three-light to left hall bay. Similar windows to ground floor, but with three-light casements to right end bay. Boarded door to No. 1 up three steps to left end of hall, and half-glazed and panelled door to No. 2 to left end of right end bay. Interior: only No. 1 inspected. Partly exposed framing. Left end bay on ground floor has unmorticed axial beam, and post towards centre of front wall unusually jowled into room. Similar post to left end. Rear wall of left hall bay has hollow-chamfered solid-spandrel brace or high doorhead springing from left end-of-hall beam. Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam with broadly-spaced studding, and stave infilling, beneath it. Tension- braced stave-and-plaster partition above it on first floor. Left end bay on first floor is ceiled beneath cross tie-beam which is carried on chamfered posts with long shaped jowls and probably solid-spandrel braces. Chamfered wall-plate and arch-braced gable end tie-beam. Hall has moulded cornice above hollow-chamfered wall-plate to front and rear, not returned across left end (right end not seen). Hollow-chamfered central truss posts with narrow integral rebated shaped jowls. Front post has engaged hollow-chamfered semi-octagonal shaft with moulded capital. Rear post not visible on ground floor. Cambered central tie- beam with same moulding as cornice, and with hollow-chamfered arch braces of very large scantling meeting at centre. Bay ceiled below crown post. Chamfered side posts of probable hall window to centre of front wall of left hall bay on first floor. Left end bay has unusual blocked hollow-chamfered four-centred-arched first-floor doorway towards front of left gable end. Chamfered axial beam to inserted hall floor. Large stone and brick fireplace with cambered chamfered bressumer and with bread oven.
Listing NGR: TQ7005750198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174998
- 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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