1 and 2 Thatch Cottages

1 and 2, Thatch Cottages, The Street, Preston, Canterbury, CT3 1DZ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363303
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
1 and 2 Thatch Cottages
Statutory Address:
1 and 2, Thatch Cottages, The Street, Preston, Canterbury, CT3 1DZ
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363303
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
1 and 2 Thatch Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
1 and 2, Thatch Cottages, The Street, Preston, Canterbury, CT3 1DZ

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
1 and 2, Thatch Cottages, The Street, Preston, Canterbury, CT3 1DZ

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

County:
Kent
District:
Dover (District Authority)
Parish:
Preston
National Grid Reference:
TR 25068 61017

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 May 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TR 26 SE
2/212

PRESTON
THE STREET (west side)
Thatch Cottages, 1 and 2

(Formerly listed as House about 20 metres south of Preston House)

GV
II
House, sometime cottage pair. Early C18. Painted brick and rendered left return, with thatched roof and plain tiled roof to rear wing. One storey and attic with hipped roof, two raking dormers with stacks to rear and at end right. Two segmental headed glazing bar sashes and two central boarded doors. Hipped extension to right. C20 glazed door in rear wing. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TR2505561042

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
178243
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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