Lees Cottages
LEES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, DOWNS WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367112
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lees Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- LEES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, DOWNS WAY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367112
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lees Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, DOWNS WAY
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:
- LEES COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, DOWNS WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sellindge
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 10478 38345
Details
TR 13 NW SELLINDGE DOWNS WAY (North end)
3/79 Nos. 1 and 2 Lees Cottages
II
House, now house row. Early C16 or earlier, with later C16 or early C17 alterations. Timber framed, pebbledashed, with plain tile roof. 1½ storeys. Exposed painted post to left of stack. Roof half-hipped to left with gablet, hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of one small 2-light casement over door and one 2-storey rectangular bay to right rising above eaves with hipped roof and one 3-light metal casement to each floor. Boarded door with rectangular leaded light under canopy beneath stack. Similar door to rear of left gable end, in rear lean-to. Low lean-to to right end of front elevation. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Clasped purlin roof to left end bay, common rafters with lower lapped collars towards stack.
Listing NGR: TR1047838345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175657
- 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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