Listed Building record TQ 75 SE 226 - THE LIMES, Otham

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1633 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 7974 5320 (point)
Map sheet TQ75SE
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish OTHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
OTHAM STREET TQ 75 SE OTHAM (East Side) The Limes 3/226 23.5.67 GV II House. Mid C17, with early C19 facade and alterations. Timber framed. Channelled render to facade. Plain tile roof. Semi lobby-entry plan, with narrow central corridor (possibly formed in C19)behind stack, and one room to each side. 2 storeys and attics on rendered plinth. Plain stone-coped parapet. Half-hipped roof. Rendered ridge stack to left of centre (to right end of left room). Two C19 projecting brick gable end stacks to right. 2 flat-roofed dormers. Regular 3-window front of recessed 16-pane sashes. Rendered flat-roofed porch under stack with engaged Doric columns and panelled door with narrow rectangular fanlight. House flanked on each side by single-storey rendered wall containing round-headed doorway. Narrow C19 parallel rear range, and short rear wing to right. Single- storey early C20 addition with three-quarters hipped roof, to left gable end, set back from flanking wall. Interior: ovolo-moulded axial beam with soffit panel to left ground-floor room. Fireplace to same room with chamfered wooden bressumer and renewed jambs. Tooled and chamfered stone jamb with vase stop re-used in later cellar stairs. C19 grate to right ground-floor room, with irises to tiles and with consoled marble shelf. C19 panelled doors. Attic stairs behind stack. Staggered butt-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7975153205


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

Sep 3 2009 4:50PM