Listed Building record TQ 85 SE 256 - 12-16 HIGH STREET

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 8979 5212 (point)
Map sheet TQ85SE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LENHAM HIGH STREET TQ 8952 (west side)
10/177 Nos. 12-16 (even) 26.4.68. GV II
House, now house row. C15 with C16 alterations and late C19 facade. Timber-framed core. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick, first floor tile hung with alternate bands of plain and fishscale tiles. Plain tile roof. Left gable end weatherboarded on first floor and part of ground floor, rendered towards apex. Hall and cross-wing. Main range 1 1/2 storeys on plinth, wing 2 storeys. Projecting gabled cross-wing to right with plain bargeboards. Ground floor of main range built out to same plane as cross-wing, with plain-tiled pentice roof over. Right end of roof of main range hipped down to junction with wing. Brick ridge stack off-centre to left with 3 octagonal flues on corniced plinth. Irregular fenestration of two 3-light through dormers to main range and one 3-light casement to wing. 3 panelled doors, each up 3 steps, in panelled recesses; to Nos. 12 and 16 with flat bracketted hoods, and to No. 14, beneath stack, with reeded surround with patterns and flat corniced hood. Boarded door with segmental head to left end of No. 16. Interior No. 14 has moulded end of hall beam, and ogee braces on first floor. Exposed timbers of C15 and C16. Other blocked features. Interiors of Nos. 12 and 16 not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8979152124


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