12B AND 14, KING STREET

12B AND 14, KING STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1351069
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:
12B AND 14, KING STREET
Statutory Address:
12B AND 14, KING STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1351069
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1973
List Entry Name:
12B AND 14, KING STREET
Statutory Address 1:
12B AND 14, KING 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
12B AND 14, KING STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Thanet (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TR 35422 71087

Details

TR 3571 SW MARGATE KING STREET (south side)

2/218 Numbers 12B and 14 22.2.73

GV II Originally one house, now subdivided. Early to mid C17 house, subdivided and refronted in early C19 and altered in later C20. Flint-faced with red brick quoins and dressings now painted. Parapet. Two storey's: 2 windows. Probably originally a two bay end chimneystack house with curved gables, the imprint of one of which is still to be seen faintly on the side wall of no 16. N o 12B retains early C19 12-pane sash to first floor. No 14 has C20 replacement 12-pane sash. LaterC19 shopfronts replaced in later C20,with flint work, 12-pane sashes and paired wooden doorcases with brackets and half-glaze doors. Rear wall mainly replaced apart from some early C19 frame of thin scantling to 12B. Interior of 12B retains spine beam with lambs tongue stop and ovolo moulding with early C19 floor joists, reeded to front and central and end beams. Early C19 winder staircase and some old floorboards. First floor also has moulded spine beam and early C19 cambered brick opening to chimney which is an early C19 replacement. No 14 has siIl1ilar C17 beams except for ground floor spine beam which has been replaced. One of a small number of houses in Margate pre-dating the town's post mid C18 development as a seaside resort.

Listing NGR: TR3542271087

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
356604
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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