Rosemary Cottage, Hillcrest Cottage and Kent Cottage

Hillcrest Cottage, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AX

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372033
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Rosemary Cottage, Hillcrest Cottage and Kent Cottage
Statutory Address:: Hillcrest Cottage, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AX

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Date:: 2006-09-04
Reference:: IOE01/16010/08
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1372033
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Rosemary Cottage, Hillcrest Cottage and Kent Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Hillcrest Cottage, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AX
Statutory Address 2:: Rosemary Cottage and Kent Cottage, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AY

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: Hillcrest Cottage, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AX
Statutory Address:: Rosemary Cottage and Kent Cottage, High Street, Staplehurst, TN12 0AY

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Staplehurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 78575 42968

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 July 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 74 SE 3/134 STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET (west side) Rosemary Cottage, Hillcrest Cottage and Kent Cottage (formerly listed as Rosemary, Hill Crest, Craybrook Studios, and Kent Cottage, previously separately listed as Two Cottages adjoining to the north of South Stores, and as Hilltop)

GV II House row with shop. Late C16 or early C17, with probably later single-bay addition (Rosemary Cottage) to left, and with C19 alterations. Timber framed. Two cottages to left of stack rendered with painted brick towards base. Ground floor under and to right of stack rendered, first floor tile-hung under stack, and close-studded to wing gable. Plain tile roof.

Main range, with crosswing to right. Left end two storeys and attic, central section one and a half storeys, with same eaves level but on plinth graduating with slope to left. Wing two storeys and attic with higher, jettied, midrail and much higher eaves and ridge. Main range gabled to left, wing gabled to front. Multiple red and grey brick stack partly within front slope of roof, to junction of main range and wing. Small hipped dormer with two-light casement to left, eaves dormer with twelve-pane sash towards centre and two-light casement to gable of wing. Irregular fenestration of two windows; one four-light casement to Rosemary Cottage, and C19 canted three-light oriel window to first floor of wing. Boarded door to Rosemary Cottage up two steps under pentice towards left end. Boarded stable door to left of centre and boarded door to right of centre, both up two steps. Half-glazed door up one step to Kent Cottage to right end of wing. Short rear wing to left.

Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing and brick inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer, to ground floor of wing.

Listing NGR: TQ7856842962

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Legacy System number:: 174600
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.