Listed Building record TR 14 SE 179 - OLD ROBUS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1932

Location

Grid reference TR 1620 4126 (point)
Map sheet TR14SE
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish LYMINGE, SHEPWAY, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 SE LYMINGE CANTERBURY ROAD (south-west side)
4/142 Old Robus 29.12.66 II
House. Early-to-mid C17, with late C19 or early C20 addition. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret on stone plinth. Front elevation and right gable end close-studded, with intermittent mid-height rail to each storey. Continuous jetty, beam ends suggesting two timber-framed bays and short central-entry bay. Gabled roof. Eaves jettied on moulded bressumer to right gable end, with pierced and enriched pendant to front corner. Large projecting gable-end stack to right, on flint plinth with stone quoins, stack of red brick in English bond with tumbled shoulders, and two diagonally-set flues on rectangular brick plinth with moulded cornice. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one leaded three-light casement to left and one two-light to right, and central twenty-pane sash. Ribbed door towards centre, in rectangular moulded architrave, up three steps. Red and grey brick rear lean-to, on stone plinth. Two- storey late C19 or early C20 addition to right, projecting forwards slightly as cross-wing; ground floor painted brick, first floor painted pebbledash with straight flush framing, gabled plain tile roof, one six-pane first-floor sash. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TR1620141263


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