Rats Castle
RATS CASTLE, ROUGHWAY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362027
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rats Castle
- Statutory Address:
- RATS CASTLE, ROUGHWAY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362027
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rats Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- RATS CASTLE, ROUGHWAY LANE
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:
- RATS CASTLE, ROUGHWAY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Plaxtol
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 62555 53083
Details
TQ 65 SW PLAXTOL ROUGHWAY LANE 4/32 (south side)
1.8.52 Rats Castle II*
Farmhouse. Possibly C14 much altered especially in C16, C19 and C20. Timber-framed. Random galletted rubble stone ground floor, underbuilt to conceal the jetty above. Tile-hung first floor Steep hipped plain tiled roof with gablets and small return gable over projecting 2-storey bay. Two gables behind and 2 dormers to west. Two storeys with attic and cellar in south-west corner. Three windows to north, very irregular, casements. Off-centre Tudor doorway with moulded arched brick surround, the imposts carved stone with sphinx-like masks. Initials S. C. (Stephen Chilman, owner) in gable, of Elizabethan date. Modern one-storey verandah to south with balcony over. Interior. Half of hall opened. Decorated beam at east and of hall C16 fireplace with wooden bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ6255553083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357367
- 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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