Listed Building: OAK COTTAGE AND OLD COTTAGES (1260605)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1418, 8, 66
Date assigned 17 October 1988
Date last amended

Description

TR 1644-1744 ELHAM THE ROW (west side) 8/66 Oak Cottage and No. 1 and No. 2 Old Cottages GV II House row. Oak Cottage probably of C17 or early C18 origin, with C19 alterations, largely restored in early C20. Nos. 1 and 2 Old Cottage mid-to-late C18 with some C19 fenestration. Oak Cottage: ground floor red and grey brick in English bond, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Two storeys. Coursed stone plinth with chamfered brick top course. Continuous jetty. Left gable end brick, corbelled out to jetty. Red brick gable-end stacks. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; two sixteen-pane sashes and small central two-light casement. Two three-light casements to ground floor. Central ribbed door with segmental head. Rear lean-to. Interior: joists largely replaced, in similar scantling to original. Central staircase. C19 fireplace surround and grate. Nos. 1 and 2 Old Cottages: house pair, to right of Oak Cottage. Red and grey brick, largely in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Gabled, with gable-end stacks. Irregular fenestration of 2 sashes; one twelve-pane to left and one four-pane to right. Two four-pane ground-floor sashes with segmental heads. Central pair of doors, each of four sunk panels, under overall segmental head; to No. 2 to left and No. 1 to right. Interior not inspected. All three included for group value. Listing NGR: TR1766044111

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 1765 4410 (point)
Map sheet TR14SE
County KENT
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish ELHAM, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Feb 6 2024 9:04AM