Shields Cottages and High Hope
Shields Cottages and High Hope, 1-3, The Street, Plaxtol, Sevenoaks, TN15 0QH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362031
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shields Cottages and High Hope
- Statutory Address:
- Shields Cottages and High Hope, 1-3, The Street, Plaxtol, Sevenoaks, TN15 0QH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362031
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Shields Cottages and High Hope
- Statutory Address 1:
- Shields Cottages and High Hope, 1-3, The Street, Plaxtol, Sevenoaks, TN15 0QH
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:
- Shields Cottages and High Hope, 1-3, The Street, Plaxtol, Sevenoaks, TN15 0QH
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 60547 53482
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details, update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 6053
6/28
PLAXTOL
THE STREET (south side)
Nos 1 to 3 (consec)(Shields Cottages) and High Hope
(Formerly listed as Nos 1 to 4 (consec) Shields Cottages)
II
Terraced cottage row. Dated 1802. Red brick with blue headers. Wooden eaves cornice to plain tiled mansard roof with four sashed segment-headed dormers and two ridge stacks. either side of centre. Two storeys and attic; four window front, symmetrically arranged between the two pairs of doorways. Glazing bar sashes with open boxes and gauged heads. Four doorways, two in centre, one at each end of front. Panelled quarter-glazed doors with flat hoods on brackets. Central first floor datestone in circular recessed panels.
Listing NGR: TQ6054753482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357374
- 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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