Listed Building record TQ 85 SW 230 - BARRACK COTTAGES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1832

Location

Grid reference TQ 8389 5251 (point)
Map sheet TQ85SW
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish BROOMFIELD AND KINGSWOOD, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BROOMFIELD LOWER BROOMFIELD TQ 85 SW ROAD [west side] 2/15 Barrack Cottages 26.4.68 GV II
Cottage row. Early 19th century. Coursed galletted stone on galletted stone plinth, with end pilaster strips and broad full- height central panel in chequered red and grey brick. Two 3-course plat bands in English bond with central grey brick header course; one above plinth and one between floors. Red brick window and door dressings. Two parallel ranges. 2 storeys and cellars, with dentilled red brick eaves cornice. Hipped roof, hips returning to right and left. 4 stacks; one towards each end, one at left end and one to rear at right end. Regular 7-window front of deeply recessed round-headed 2-light casements with projecting keystones and cills; one to central panel and 3 smaller ones to each side section. No keystone to central window. 8 ground-floor windows in pairs under outer windows of each side section. 3 recessed round-headed boarded doors, central door broader, each with 2 segmental top lights; one to central panel and one to centre of each side section, that to right up 2 steps. Broad chamfered wooden hood over central door. Coach house added to right. Stone with red brick dressings. 2 storeys. Lean-to roof with stone-coped parapet. One window in same style as cottages. Blocked double doorway to ground floor. Single-storey stone lean-to added to right of coach- house, formerly part of a bullock yard. Interior not inspected, but said to retain original doors. Associated with Leeds Castle.
Listing NGR: TQ8389652518


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM