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12-16, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Lenham, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2367 / 51°14'12"N

Longitude: 0.7174 / 0°43'2"E

OS Eastings: 589792

OS Northings: 152125

OS Grid: TQ897521

Mapcode National: GBR QT6.G5J

Mapcode Global: VHKK5.D53R

Plus Code: 9F326PP8+MX

Entry Name: 12-16, High Street

Listing Date: 26 April 1968

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1344256

English Heritage Legacy ID: 173912

ID on this website: 101344256

Location: Lenham, Maidstone, Kent, ME17

County: Kent

District: Maidstone

Civil Parish: Lenham

Built-Up Area: Lenham

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


LENHAM HIGH STREET
TQ 8952 (west side)

10/177 Nos. 12-16 (even)
26.4.68.
GV II

House, now house row. C15 with C16 alterations and late C19
facade. Timber-framed core. Ground floor chequered red and grey
brick, first floor tile hung with alternate bands of plain and
fishscale tiles. Plain tile roof. Left gable end weatherboarded
on first floor and part of ground floor, rendered towards apex.
Hall and cross-wing. Main range 1 1/2 storeys on plinth, wing 2 storeys.
Projecting gabled cross-wing to right with plain bargeboards.
Ground floor of main range built out to same plane as cross-wing,
with plain-tiled pentice roof over. Right end of roof of main range
hipped down to junction with wing. Brick ridge stack off-centre
to left with 3 octagonal flues on corniced plinth. Irregular
fenestration of two 3-light through dormers to main range and one
3-light casement to wing. 3 panelled doors, each up 3 steps, in
panelled recesses; to Nos. 12 and 16 with flat bracketted
hoods, and to No. 14, beneath stack, with reeded surround with
patterns and flat corniced hood. Boarded door with segmental
head to left end of No. 16. Interior No. 14 has moulded end of hall
beam, and ogee braces on first floor. Exposed timbers of C15 and C16.
Other blocked features. Interiors of Nos. 12 and 16 not inspected.


Listing NGR: TQ8979152124

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