Listed Building record TQ 85 SW 235 - MILSTEAD COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 8200 5288 (point)
Map sheet TQ85SW
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish LEEDS, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LEEDS UPPER STREET TQ 8252 (west side) 9/123 Milstead Cottage (formerly listed as Nos. 1,2, and 26.4.68. 3 Milstead Cottages) GV II
House, formerly house row, now house. C15 or early C16, with late C16 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed with plaster in- filling. Left gable end galletted stone. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 roughly equal bays with storeyed bay to either end. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Broadly-spaced studding, with arch brace to right end bay. Roof half-hipped to left and hipped with gablet to right. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof off-centre to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements. Ribbed doors with very shallow hoods; to left end, beneath stack (left end of right hall bay), and to left end of right end bay. Possibly C16 or C17 timber-framed rear lean-to. C19 lean-to at right end with dormer window against hip of main range, containing stairs to right end cottage. Interior: Plain, substantial timbers. Arch-braced tie-beams. Inglenook.
Listing NGR: TQ8200352883


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM