Listed Building: WILLOW GROVE (1099926)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1417, 7, 164
Date assigned 23 May 1967
Date last amended

Description

YALDING LEES ROAD TQ 6949 (south-east side) 7/164 Willow Grove (formerly listed 23-5-67 under High Street, east-west Arm) GV II House. Late C18, circa 1800, early C19, and mid C19. Front range painted brick with slate roof, rear range red and grey brick with plain tile roof. Late C18 house, with parallel front range added in c.1800. Early C19 addition to left end of front range, and mid C19 addition to left end of rear range. 2 storeys and attic. Front elevation: chamfered brick plinth. Plat band to c.1800 section. Plain parapet. Straight-joint in brickwork wall to left of centre. Gabled roof to each range. Projecting brick gable end stacks to front range. Three flat-roofed dormers with paned lights. Regular (c.1800) three-window front of bowed sixteen-pane sashes, each with plain frieze and moulded cornice; one to left and two to right of straight joint. Left ground-floor window similar, but without frieze and cornice, and with painted brick or mathematical tiles between it and first floor. Similar painted brick or tile bow under right window, but with later C19 flat-roofed rectangular ground-floor bay window under. Central half-glazed and panelled double doors with flat bracketed hood, up three stone steps. Rear elevation of late C18 section has dentilled brick eaves cornice, two hipped dormers, and regular three-window front of two three-light and central two-light leaded casements; segmental heads to ground-floor windows. Single-storey central red brick bakehouse to rear, with plain tile roof hipped to left, and gabled with stack to right. Weatherboarded section with plain tile roof between it and house. Interior: doors with two broad panels. Iron grates. Niches flanking fireplace. Walled staircases. Staggered butt purlin roof to late C18 section. Ceiled roof with long raking windbraces to c.1800 section. Listing NGR: TQ6956249906

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6956 4990 (point)
Map sheet TQ64NE
Civil Parish YALDING, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM