Listed Building: CASTLE COTTAGES AND STORE BUILDING AT EAST END (1273146)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 771, 21, 747
Date assigned 10 September 1954
Date last amended

Description

1. 5280 OTFORD OTFORD The Green TQ 5259 21/747 Nos I to 3 (consec) l0.9.54 (Castle Cottages) and Store Building at East end (Formerly listed as Palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury) II* GV 2. These buildings are part of the only surviving range of the palace built by Archbishop Warham in the early Cl6. The original walls of red brick with blue headers and stone quoins and dressings. High galleted rubble plinth with moulded stone coping. Windows of 1 or 2 Tudor-arched lights, mostly under hoodmoulds. The 2-storey cottages, of 1 or 2 windows' width, have 1st floors rebuilt in brick and rebuilt tiled roofs. Modern casement windows and modern doors, that of No 2 under original, 4-centred stone arch. Storage building (AM) (formerly the chapel) also has renewed tiled roof hipped over half-octagonal ends. 2 doors under moulded stone arches, 1 3-centred and one 4-centred. At west end of the range stands the roofless tower of the palace, now a scheduled AM but visually part of the group. [All the buildings in The Green form a group.] Listing NGR: TQ5282759205

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5283 5919 (point)
Map sheet TQ55NW
Civil Parish OTFORD, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Record last edited

Jun 14 2010 12:00PM