Listed Building: WALNUT TREE COTTAGES (1366271)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1417, 6, 131
Date assigned 14 October 1987
Date last amended

Description

YALDING HIGH STREET TQ 6950 (west side) 6/131 Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Walnut Tree Cottages GV II House row. Later C17 or early C18, with C18 and C19 alterations. Ground floor red and grey brick, largely in Flemish bond, to left of stack, red and grey brick in stretcher bond with applied broadly-spaced studding to right. First floor weatherboarded to left of stack, hung with fishscale tiles to right. Plain tile roof. Probably 4 timber-framed bays; two to left and one to right of stack bay. 2 storeys. Stone plinth to right end. Moulded wooden fillet under fishscale tiles. Roof gabled to left, half-hipped to right. Projecting red and grey brick stacks to left and right gable ends, and multiple red and grey brick ridge stack towards centre. Irregular fenestration of 5 paned casements; two broadly-spaced three-light casements to left of stack, and three two-light under it and to right. Adjacent boarded doors with continuous flat bracketed hood between windows of left section, to Nos. 3 and 2. Ribbed door with flat corniced hood to No. 1 towards centre of right section. Short two-storey rear return wings to left, right and centre, with lower ridges. Interior: only partly inspected. Gunstock-jowled principal posts to bay to left of stack. Chamfered axial beam and bevelled joists to same bay on ground floor. Brick fireplace with cambered bressumer chamfered, with pyramid stop. Formerly known as Court Lodge Cottages. Listing NGR: TQ6989950274

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6989 5026 (point)
Map sheet TQ65SE
Civil Parish YALDING, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM