Listed Building: CROSS KEYS COTTAGE AND CROSS KEYS COTTAGES (1086269)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 144, 6, 39
Date assigned 20 July 1984
Date last amended

Description

In the entry for: TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET (north side) Cross Keys Cottage 6/39 The address shall be amended to read: TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET (north side) 6/39 Cross Keys Cottage and Nos 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottages The description shall be amended to read: House and 2 cottages. Cross Keys Cottage is late C16 or early C17. Nos 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottage are early to mid C19. Cross Keys Cottage is timber framed under painted pebble-dash with applied framing on the first floor of the front elevation. Plain tiled roof. Built at right angles to the road. 2 storeys and attics, roof half-hipped at left end and hipped to right. No obvious stack. 3 dormers with ornamental bargeboards, 2 to front elevation and one in right end hip. 3 timber framed bays. Irregular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes, one to left and 2 towards right. 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right of left sash. C20 glazed door off centre to left, under the mullioned window, in a C20 glazed porch with pitched plain tile roof. Small C20 extension to right. Interior has exposed beams joists and posts. Nos 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottages are early C19 to mid C19. Two storeys. No 1 is mainly painted brick and rest of No 1 and No 2 are painted brick on the ground floor and tile hung in alternate 3 courses of plain and curved tiles on the first floor. Tiled roof with 2 brick chimneystacks. South west front of No 1 has 1 12-paned sash and gabled weatherboarded porch with side light and bargeboard with finial and pendant. North west front has 1 gabled dormer with barge boards and 3 windows, 1 12-pane sash and 2 C20 casements. Cambered dormers to No 1 and gabled weather porch with bargeboard and finial to No 2. TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET (north side) 6/39 Cross Keys Cottage II House. Late C16 or early C17. Timber framed under painted pebble-dash with applied framing on first floor of front elevation. Plain tile roof. Right angles to road. 2 storeys and attics, roof half-hipped at left end and hipped to right. No obvious stack. 3 dormers with ornamental bargeboards, 2 to front eleva- tion and one in right end hip. 3 timber-framed bays. Irregular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes, one to left and 2 towards right. 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right of left sash. C20 glazed door off-centre to left, under the mullioned window, in a C20 glazed porch with pitched plain tile roof. Small C20 extension to right. Interior: has exposed beams, joists and posts. Listing NGR: TQ8046455725

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 8046 5572 (point)
Map sheet TQ85NW
Civil Parish BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM