Description

WEST MALLING

TQ6857 SWAN STREET
1156-0/3/135 Nos.1 AND 3
01/08/52
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Post Office (Sorting office only)
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
Shop premises occupied by E.Baldock
& Son)

GV II

Shop. Late medieval building, underbuilt, refronted and a
mansard roof added in early C19. Exterior has ground floor of
painted brick and stuccoed 1st floor with incised lines to
imitate masonry. Stuccoed plinth. Slate mansard roof. 2
storeys and attics; 3 windows. attic storey has 3 casements.
1st floor has 3 16-pane sashes and further sash to High Street
elevation. Swan Street elevation has 3 plain shopfronts with
wooden pilasters and brackets and large fascia. High Street
elevation has 2 similar shopfronts and 4-panelled door, now
blocked.
Interior has dragon beams, showing that it was once jettied
and door heads on the 1st floor. Deeds show ownership from the
sale of the house about 1620. The property was indentured to
many notable people including 2 Grooms to the Bedchamber of
Charles II and Judge Twisden who tried the regicides.
(Crozier P: Survey of the buildings in West Malling: ITEM 8).

Listing NGR: TQ6805857828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580812

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)