Listed Building: LITTLE BENOVER COTTAGE AND WELL COTTAGE (1115410)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1417, 4, 67
Date assigned 14 October 1987
Date last amended

Description

YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 74 NW (South-west side) 4/67 Little Benover Cottage and Well Cottage II House pair. Early C17 with later alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation rendered, with exposed full-height posts. Plain tile roof. Two timber-framed bays to left of centre, and possibly a further two to right. 2 storeys, on rendered plinth. Front elevation possibly rebuilt in late C17 or C18, with three full-height posts delineating two left bays. Exposed midrail and three studs to right of centre. Roof half- hipped to left, gabled to right. Projecting brick gable-end stack to left, and gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one three-light to left end, one two-light to left-central bay, one three-light towards right end, and leaded single light under right stack. Ribbed door under lean-to brick porch to right end of left bay, to Little Benover Cottage. Boarded door in similar porch to right end to Well Cottage. Rendered lean-to to left, and red and grey brick lean-to with rendered gable to right. Interior: only partly inspected. Three late C16 or early C17 gunstock-jowled posts to rear wall of Little Benover Cottage, the central post of the three not aligned with front elevation post. Tie-beam to right post of the three, with clasped-purlin truss above it. Said to be more framing to right. Formerly known as Myrtle Cottage and Linton Cottage. Listing NGR: TQ7017848560

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7018 4855 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NW
Civil Parish YALDING, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM