Listed Building: BRIDGE COTTAGE AND KINGSLAND COTTAGES (1060619)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1417, 7, 42
Date assigned 22 December 1978
Date last amended

Description

YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 6949 (north-east side) 7/42 (Formerly known as High Street, 22-12-78 East-West Arm) Nos. 1-4 (inclusive) Kingsland Cottages, and Bridge Cottage(formerly listed as Prentice GV II Store) House row. Left end possibly formerly a special purpose building. Right section late C18 or early C19. Left section has late C18 or early C19 facade to a possibly earlier core. Left section has red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, and tile-hung first floor, Chequered red and grey brick to both floors of right section. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attics. Brick and rendered plinth to left section, ragstone plinth with brick top course to right. Red and grey brick plat band in English bond to right section. Moulded wooden eaves cornice to whole row. Half hipped roof. Brick stack in front slope of roof to left of centre, rear stack to right of centre, and projecting red and grey brick gable end stack to right. Five small hipped dormers. Irregular fenestration of 5 wooden casements; none to left end, and two three-light flanking left stack, to left section, and one three-light and two two-light with segmental heads to right section. Segmental heads to ground-floor casements of both sections. Boarded door in architrave with pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice, up three steps towards front of left gable end, to Bridge Cottage. Blocked doorway, now containing two- light casement, towards centre of section between left stack and left end. Plain door under left stack to No. 1; door with six fielded panels to left end of right section (towards centre of whole range), to No. 2; and pair of half-glazed doors between central and right windows of right section, to Nos. 3 and 4. Two or three steps, and flat floating hood to each door, (hoods to Nos. 3 and 4 continuous). Rear lean-to to whole range. Interior: only partly inspected. Softwood axial beams, steep rear staircase and roof of (probably) staggered butt purlins to No. 2. Listing NGR: TQ6972549951

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6972 4993 (point)
Map sheet TQ64NE
Civil Parish YALDING, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM