Listed Building: COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT (1060625)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1417, 7, 55
Date assigned 22 December 1978
Date last amended

Description

YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 6949 (South side) 7/55 Cobblestones 22.12.1978 Restaurant (formerly listed, under The Square, as Prentice Stores) GV II House, formerly house and shop, now restaurant. Rear range early C17, front range mid-to-late C18 with mid-to-late C19 alterations. Rear range timber framed, gable ends clad with red and grey brick on ground floor, tile-hung on first floor. Front range chequered red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. Two parallel ranges; rear range of 4 timber-framed bays, with continuous jetty to former front elevation; front range possibly built with shop to right end of ground floor, altered in C19. Front range 2 storeys, rear range 2 slightly lower storeys and garret. Front elevation: red brick plat-band. Ionic-modillioned wooden eaves cornice. Gabled. Projecting red and grey brick end stacks in English bond. Brick stack to left of centre of rear range, with recessed round-headed panel. Regular 3-window front of one pair of four-paned sashes with central mullion, towards each end, and single central four-paned sash, all in open boxes, with red brick dressings and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. One pair of sashes with panelled shutters to right end of ground floor, to right of first+floor window. C19 rectangular bay shop window to rest of ground floor, with moulded cornice and central half-glazed double doors with narrow margin lights. Door with two flush and two fielded panels, four- light rectangular fanlight and flat hood to right gable end of rear range. Short two-storey rear wing to right. Rear lean-to to rest. Interior: exposed framing to rear range, with chamfered beams and gunstock-jowled posts. Brick fireplace with shaped back and wooden mantleshelf to left end of left-central bay on first-floor, and fireplace to ground floor below. Straight early C19 staircase with turned balusters, clasped- purlin roof to each range, rear range with windbraces and vertical queen struts to collars, front range with cambered collars. Listing NGR: TQ6969849924

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6969 4992 (point)
Map sheet TQ64NE
Civil Parish YALDING, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM