Listed Building record TR 14 SE 165 - RIGDENS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799

Location

Grid reference TR 1773 4387 (point)
Map sheet TR14SE
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish ELHAM, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM THE SQUARE (east side)
9/74 No. 4 (Rigdens) (formerly listed 29.12.66 with Crown House, No.2 and No.3)
GV II
House. C18. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Central- entry plan. 2 storeys and cellar. Chamfered brick plinth on stone base. Plat band. Boxed eaves. Gabled roof. Red brick gable-end stacks. Regular 3-window front of two sixteen-pane sashes and central twelve- pane sash, in open boxes, and with segmental heads. Similar windows to ground floor. Recessed central door of six sunk panels, with rectangular three-light fanlight. Doorcase with reeded pilasters and frieze, and flat hood. Single-storey addition to left, set back from front elevation, of flint with brick dressings, with hipped lean-to roof, and sixteen-pane sash with segmental head. Two conjoined two storey brick rear additions, that to right shorter, with plain tile roof hipped to rear, that to left with roof hipped to left and right. Left addition has sixteen-pane ground-floor sash with segmental head, and boarded door, also with segmental head. Interior: only partly inspected. Staircase with moulded balusters and scrolled cheeks. Rendered fireplace with wooden bressumer to left ground-floor room. Chamfered beams to cellar. Ground-floor window of rear left addition has reeded inner architrave and panelled shutters.
Listing NGR: TR1773643868


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

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM