Listed Building record TQ 75 SE 186 - PALM COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599

Location

Grid reference TQ 7543 5193 (point)
Map sheet TQ75SE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish LOOSE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
WELL STREET TQ 75 SE LOOSE (East Side) 3/212 Palm Cottage 23.5.67 GV II
House, formerly cottages, now house. C16, with later alterations. Timber-framed. Ground floor underbuilt in stone, first floor rendered, with exposed studs and principal posts. Left gable end weatherboarded. 4 timber-framed bays, built at right-angles to road. 2 storeys. South elevation: higher midrail to second bay from left (west). Rear stack to left and projecting stone stack with brick flue to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one 2-light to left end bay and another to second bay from left, and one shallow C16 3-light oriel window on shaped brackets to each of remaining bays, with diamond mullions and subsidiary mullions. Half-glazed door to third bay from left and ribbed door with top light to left end. Rendered and weatherboarded rear lean-to to left. Interior: exposed framing. Unjowled principal post on first floor to south, within one foot of west gable end. Chamfered stone fireplace to east gable end. Lightly- chamfered stone fireplace, probably C18, to rear of left end bay, projecting into lean-to. 3 plain crown-posts, to left end of roof, each with only one foot brace and one head brace. Clasped purlins, possibly C18, to rest of roof. Board doors.
Listing NGR: TQ7543451936


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