51-55, HIGH STREET
51-55, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362831
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 51-55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 51-55, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362831
- Date first listed:
- 24-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 51-55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 51-55, 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:
- 51-55, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 01051 42770
Details
1. 5344 HIGH STREET (South Side) Nos 51 to 55 (odd) TR 0142 NW 1/8 24.9.51. II* GV 2. Together with Church Gates, The Churchyard. The range facing Middle Row is C15 to C16 timber framed with close-studding to Nos 53 and 55, plastered to No 51. 2 storeys and attics. Hipped tiled roof with 2 gabled dormers. 6 windows and a loft door with hoist. Sashes with glazing bars intact and one smalI bay of 3 lights. Ground floor has modern shop fronts but at the north-west corner of No 55 are good curved glazed double doors to the shop, placed in a reeded architrave surround. Nos 53 and 55 have exposed beams. No 55 having chamfered edges and also a 4 centred doorway with blank spandrels. To the rear of Nos 53 and 55 is an C18 house of higher elevation facing the Churchyard called Church Gates. 3 storeys red brick. Hipped tiled roof with wooden modillion eaves cornice. 4 windows, several of them modern and a C19 cast iron balcony added on the 1st floor. Doorcase in moulded architrave surround with projecting cornice supported on consoles, low rectangular fanlight and 6-panelled moulded door. To the rear of No 51 is an C18 building of 2 storeys stuccoed. Hipped tiled roof with 1 hipped dormer. 1 sash with glazing bars intact. Shop front to ground floor. Plain recessed doorcases.
Nos 51 to 61 (odd), 61A, 63 to 67 (odd), 67A, 69 to 71 (odd). 75 and the rear part of 75 form a group with all items in The Churchyard.
Listing NGR: TR0105142770
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179935
- 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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