Listed Building: ALBION HOUSE (1060706)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1416, 5, 4
Date assigned 23 March 1987
Date last amended

Description

TQ 7444 MARDEN ALBION ROAD (south-west side) 5/4 Albion House GV II House, formerly cottages, now house pair. C16, with late C16 or early C17, and early C20 additions. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Late C16 or early C17 house of 2 timber-framed bays, with a third bay to left rebuilt in C19 or early C20. Single-bay rear wing towards centre, probably a fragment of an earlier C16 house. 1920s cross-wing to left flush to front and weatherboarded. 2 storeys on rendered brick plinth. Jettied gable on brackets to front of left wing. Roof of main range half-hipped to right. Multiple red and grey brick stack to right end of central bay of main range. Irregular fenestration of 4 sashes; one two-storey canted bay with three two- pane first-floor sashes to left wing, one sash window with eight-pane upper and single-pane lower sash, to each end of main range and small eight-pane sash to left of stack. Door to left return elevation and half-glazed door in weatherboarded rear return wing to right. Interior: exposed framing. Chamfered cross and axial beams. Gunstock- jowled posts. Three-light diamond mullion window and grooves for vertically-sliding shutter to rear wall of main range. Sans-purlin collared common-rafter roof to central rear wing. Partly rebuilt clasped-purlin roof to main range, with diminishing principal rafters, and windbraces. Listing NGR: TQ7467644415

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7467 4441 (point)
Map sheet TQ74SW
Civil Parish MARDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM