Turnpike House
TURNPIKE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374152
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike House
- Statutory Address:
- TURNPIKE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2004-12-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/13746/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374152
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Turnpike House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURNPIKE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TURNPIKE HOUSE, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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:
- TURNPIKE HOUSE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TURNPIKE HOUSE, MAIDSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Marden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74663 44555
Details
TQ 7444 MARDEN HIGH STREET (north-east side)
5/66 Turnpike House (Formerly listed as 23.5.67 J A Castleton, Butcher, with the house attached)
GV II
House, formerly shop, now house. Late C15 or earlyCl6 with C16 and later alterations, restored in mid-to-late C20. Timber framed. Ground floor rendered, first floor with exposed framing and rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with two roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. Two-bay early-to-mid C16 rear wing to left, and C16 or C17 rear wing to right of three timber-framed bays. 2 storeys. Right and left end bays jettied to front. First floor close- studded. Solid-spandrel arch braces to flying wall-plate, and solid- spandrel bracket under central tie-beam. Steeply-pitched roof, hipped with gablet to left, gabled to right. Brick ridge stack to right end of left hall bay, and rear stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one three-light to each end bay and to right hall bay, and one two-light to left of stack. Blocked two-light window to right end. Blocked doorway to left end of left hall bay. Rear door towards centre. Rear wings to left and right. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded end-of-hall beams, that to left less detailed. Two blocked rectangular hollow-chamfered service doorways to left end of hall. Broad close-set joists to end bays. Moulded central truss posts with cambered tie-beam and moulded octagonal crown post. Rebated end-of- hall post. Cambered hollow-chamfered axial tie-beam with hollow- chamfered posts to left end bay, and similar posts with later tie- beams to right end,neither with crown posts. Plain crown posts with foot braces to left wing. Two late C16 or early C17 three-light ovolo- moulded mullion first-floor windows to rear of hall. Moulded axial beam to inserted hall floor. Brick fireplace. C17 newel-post to stairs behind stack.
Listing NGR: TQ7466344553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174724
- 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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