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Rigdens

A Grade II Listed Building in Elham, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1527 / 51°9'9"N

Longitude: 1.112 / 1°6'43"E

OS Eastings: 617732

OS Northings: 143873

OS Grid: TR177438

Mapcode National: GBR TZN.RXZ

Mapcode Global: VHLH7.7976

Plus Code: 9F335436+3R

Entry Name: Rigdens

Listing Date: 29 December 1966

Last Amended: 17 October 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1260571

English Heritage Legacy ID: 440311

ID on this website: 101260571

Location: Elham, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, CT4

County: Kent

District: Folkestone and Hythe

Civil Parish: Elham

Built-Up Area: Elham

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


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

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