Description

WEST MALLING KING STREET
TQ 6857
1156-0/3/101 Nos 10, 12, and 14
Forge House (10 & 12)
Forge Cottage (14) (formerly listed as
01/08/52 KING STREET
Nos 1, 2, 3)

GV II

The address shall be amended to read

TQ 6857 WEST MALLING KING STREET
1156-0/3/101 No 10, 12 and 14
Forge House (10)
Forge Cottages (12 and 14) (formerly listed
01/08/52 as KING STREET
Nos 1, 2, 3)

GV II

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WEST MALLING

TQ6857 KING STREET
1156-0/3/101 Nos.10, 12, AND 14
01/08/52 Forge House (10 & 12) Forge Cottage
(14)
(Formerly Listed as:
KING STREET
Nos.1,2,3)

GV II

Row of cottages, originally one house. C16 lobby entrance
house refronted in C19. Timber-framed, plastered over with
matchboard applied framing of crossed diagonals on cemented
plinth. Old tiled roof half-hipped with off-central clustered
cemented stack and end external brick stacks. 2 storeys and
attics: 6 windows. Attic has gabled dormer with casement. 1st
floor Windows are mainly C19 casements but there are 2 4-light
mullioned and transomed oriels on brackets. Ground floor has
one 16-pane sash to No 16. 2 C19 casements to No 14 and
mullioned and transomed window and modern garage doors to No
10. No 10 has C20 6-panelled door, the top 2 panels glazed and
No 14 has a plain door. Left side elevation weatherboarded.
The rear elevation of No 10 is rendered and has a shingled
lean-to with slate roof. No 10 has in the living room a large
open fireplace with roll-moulded beam, a C16 spine beam with
2in chamfer and lamb's tongue stop and 3 iron rungs in the
corner which may be the remains of a fixed ladder to the upper
floor. 1st floor has C16 oak floor boards and internal diamond
mullioned windows. Roof structure has collar beams and through
purlins and wattle and daub is reported in the attic. C16
door. C18 pine panelling to 1st floor. The garage was formerly
a forge and it retains kick boards for the horses. No 12 has a
spine beam with 2in chamfer and lamb's tongue stops. C19
matchboard panelling. C18 winder staircase.
Outside Nos 10-14 is a section of stone cobbles.

Listing NGR: TQ6803957918

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504183

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