Listed Building: SALTS PLACE (1250632)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1804, 3, 205
Date assigned 25 July 1952
Date last amended

Description

SALTS LANE TQ 75 SE LOOSE (West Side) 3/205 Salts Place (formerly listed 25.7.52 as Salts Farmhouse) GV II Farmhouse, now house pair. C16 or earlier, with C17 and early C18 alterations and additions and late C18 facade. Timber-framed, clad with channelled render. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys, garret and cellar on stone plinth. Eaves cornice of paired Ionic modillions. Roof hipped to left, hip returning to rear. Brick stack towards front of rear left return wing, and rear stack to right of centre. Regular 9-window front of 12-pane sashes in open boxes, some with thick glazing bars. 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion garret window to right. Two doors, one under fifth and one under eighth window from left end, each of eight fielded panels, with fluted Doric architrave and flat hood on paired Ionic modillions. Right door up 2 steps. Rear left return wing, with 4 first-floor sashes, partly overlapping short rear wing or turret towards centre of left half of main range. Short parallel rear range with C17 origins towards left end of right half of main range, with further addition to right of it. Interior: only partly inspected. Panelled ground-floor room to left half of main range. Exposed framing and partitions. C17 stone fireplace with chamfered jambs. Initials and date DM 1727 pricked in plaster in first-floor room towards right end. Listing NGR: TQ7609551816

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7609 5181 (point)
Map sheet TQ75SE
Civil Parish LOOSE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM