Listed Building record TQ 75 SE 226 - THE LIMES, Otham
Summary
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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Sep 3 2009 4:50PM