Description

WEST MALLING

TQ6857 KING STREET
1156-0/3/109 No.38
Store adjoining Avicia Cottage

GV II

Former house now store. Early and late medieval clad in
corrugated iron in C20. Timber-framed building jettied to
front with tiled roof. Front elevation has late C18 6-fielded
panelled door and adjoining 6-pane casement to right. Ground
floor has large modern garage doors. Side elevation has 3
fixed casements to 1st floor and ground floor has 2 fixed
casements and a plank door. Right side elevation clad in thick
horizontal weatherboarding and rear elevation vertically
weatherboarded.
Interior has a fine cruciform crownpost roof with curved
timber braces to road. Jowled cornerposts and some exposed
wattle and daub. Inglenook and fireplaces of C16 brickwork on
all floors. Chimneystack cut off at roof level. Some C16 iron
casement windows. Daub walls. C16 or earlier flooring.
Excellent moulded tie beam supports the crownposts. Early
3-plank doors. Cellar supports building via stone buttresses
protruding from walls and has 2 stone fireplaces with wooden
lintels.
(Cozier P: Survey of buildings in West Malling: ITEM 17).

Listing NGR: TQ6800857848

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26513333

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