Weeks of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office and Attached Ranges to North and West Weeks of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office and Ranges to West
WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RANGES TO NORTH AND WEST, LEES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349100
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Weeks of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office and Attached Ranges to North and West Weeks of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office and Ranges to West
- Statutory Address:
- WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RANGES TO NORTH AND WEST, LEES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349100
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Weeks of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office and Attached Ranges to North and West Weeks of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office and Ranges to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RANGES TO NORTH AND WEST, LEES ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RANGES TO NORTH AND WEST, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 3:
- WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND RANGES TO WEST, HIGH STREET
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:
- WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RANGES TO NORTH AND WEST, LEES ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND ATTACHED RANGES TO NORTH AND WEST, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- WEEKS OF GOUDHURST, YALDING POST OFFICE AND RANGES TO WEST, HIGH STREET
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 69701 49955
Details
YALDING LEES ROAD TQ 6949 (North side) (formerly known as High Street, East-West Arm) 7/159 Weeks of Goudhurst, Yalding Post Office, and attached ranges to north and west GV II
House, shop and workshop, now shops with domestic accommodation. C18 and early C19. House, facing Lees Road, chequered red and grey brick. Former workshop (?) adjoining to left (west), red and grey brick in Flemish bond, with parallel rear range of red brick. Shop to right painted brick facing Lees Road, weatherboarded to High Street. Post Office weatherboarded. to High Street. Slate roof to rear range of workshop, plain tile roof to rest. Built on a corner site. Workshop probably early C19. House late C18 or early C19. Shop of a similar period. Post Office, and its two parallel rear ranges (which effectively form two rear wings to house), probably early C19. House 2 storeys and attics, rest 2 storeys. Roof hipped to left end of workshop, half-hipped to shop to right (facing High Street). Post Office and its two parallel rear ranges have higher eaves and ridges than rest with two gables and one half-hip. Modillioned eaves cornice to Post Office. Central red and grey brick stack to house, set parallel to ridge. Gable end stack to Post Office, and stack between rear ranges. House has two hipped dormers with paned two-light casements, regular 2-window front of four-pane sashes in open boxes (with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs to ground-floor window), and central door of six fielded panels with flat corniced hood. Workshop has irregular fenestration of 2 four-pane sashes in open boxes and nothing to left end on first floor, three similar ground-floor sashes with segmental heads, and blocked carriage entrance to right end, adjoining house. Shop unfenestrated to Lees Road. High-Street return has one two-light window to gable end of shop and one single-light and one two-light window to Post Office. Half-glazed door to shop, and half-glazed double doors with flat hood, to Post Office. Interior: house has timber- framed rear wall of relatively light scantling, chamfered beams, moulded wooden first-floor mantelshelf, attic stairs behind stack, and clasped- purlin roof. Common-rafter roof over shop. Stairs within rear range have moulded cheeks and balusters.
Listing NGR: TQ6970849955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174959
- 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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