Building record TQ 75 NE 861 - 53 Week Street
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7602 5594 (point) Centred |
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Map sheet | TQ75NE |
County | KENT |
District | MAIDSTONE, KENT |
Civil Parish | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Full Description
Three-storeyed Victorian frontage to a probably older building. Clad in painted mathematical tiles. Two pairs of paired sash windows to each upper floor, those to first floor surpounted by cornices. Bracketed eaves cornice. Slate roof. Upper floors possibly jettied, supported at each end on console brackets forming part of the 19th century shopfront design of which the fascia remains. This fascia has 2 separate cornices to each end carried on console brackets and has an arched canopy above the centre containing a clock (the premises were occupied by a watchmaker/jeweller from the 1880s to the early 1970s). Modern sympathetic shopfront. (1)
<1> Maidstone Borough Council, Maidstone Borough Council Local List (Scheduling record). SKE16369.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SKE16369 Scheduling record: Maidstone Borough Council. Maidstone Borough Council Local List.
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Record last edited
Jan 24 2011 11:02AM