Listed Building: STORE ADJOINING AVICIA COTTAGE (1218722)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1156, 3, 109
Date assigned 30 November 1993
Date last amended

Description

WEST MALLING TQ6857 KING STREET 1156-0/3/109 No.38 Store adjoining Avicia Cottage GV II Former house now store. Early and late medieval clad in corrugated iron in C20. Timber-framed building jettied to front with tiled roof. Front elevation has late C18 6-fielded panelled door and adjoining 6-pane casement to right. Ground floor has large modern garage doors. Side elevation has 3 fixed casements to 1st floor and ground floor has 2 fixed casements and a plank door. Right side elevation clad in thick horizontal weatherboarding and rear elevation vertically weatherboarded. Interior has a fine cruciform crownpost roof with curved timber braces to road. Jowled cornerposts and some exposed wattle and daub. Inglenook and fireplaces of C16 brickwork on all floors. Chimneystack cut off at roof level. Some C16 iron casement windows. Daub walls. C16 or earlier flooring. Excellent moulded tie beam supports the crownposts. Early 3-plank doors. Cellar supports building via stone buttresses protruding from walls and has 2 stone fireplaces with wooden lintels. (Cozier P: Survey of buildings in West Malling: ITEM 17). Listing NGR: TQ6800857848

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6800 5784 (point)
Map sheet TQ65NE
Civil Parish WEST MALLING, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM