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John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop

A Grade II Listed Building in Marden, Kent

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Latitude: 51.1734 / 51°10'24"N

Longitude: 0.4969 / 0°29'48"E

OS Eastings: 574640

OS Northings: 144540

OS Grid: TQ746445

Mapcode National: GBR PSC.6H7

Mapcode Global: VHJMS.KRJT

Plus Code: 9F325FFW+9Q

Entry Name: John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop

Listing Date: 23 March 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1060658

English Heritage Legacy ID: 174733

ID on this website: 101060658

Location: Marden, Maidstone, Kent, TN12

County: Kent

District: Maidstone

Civil Parish: Marden

Built-Up Area: Marden

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 September 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 7444
5/75

MARDEN
HIGH STREET (south-west side)
John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop

(Formerly listed as John's Hairdresser, Marsida, No.3, and Vicky Clark)

GV
II
House and shop row. Late C17, with late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor hung with banded plain and fishscale tiles. Exposed framing to right side of passage to former No.3. Plain tile roof. Two relatively tall storeys. Moulded wooden fillet to base of tile-hanging. Gabled. Brick ridge stack towards left end and to right end. Irregular fenestration of three sixteen-pane sashes; one under and one to left of stack, nothing to centre, and one to right. Half-glazed door to John's shop-front to left, panelled door with rectangular three-light fanlight to Marsida to right of stack, with passage to former No.3 adjacent to it to right, and half-glazed door to right end of Vhe Old Sweet Shop's late C19 or early C20 shop-front to right end. Two short rear wings with roofs hipped to rear.

Interior: only partly inspected.The Old Sweet Shop has chamfered cross and axial beam to each floor, large shaped jowl and straight tension brace to rear corner post, and clasped-purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TQ7463944535

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