Listed Building record TQ 74 NW 238 - LITTLE BENOVER COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1799

Location

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

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
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


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