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Cross Keys Cottage Cross Keys Cottages

A Grade II Listed Building in Bearsted, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2721 / 51°16'19"N

Longitude: 0.5858 / 0°35'8"E

OS Eastings: 580468

OS Northings: 155728

OS Grid: TQ804557

Mapcode National: GBR PR9.4XF

Mapcode Global: VHJMG.39J4

Plus Code: 9F327HCP+R8

Entry Name: Cross Keys Cottage Cross Keys Cottages

Listing Date: 20 July 1984

Last Amended: 6 January 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1086269

English Heritage Legacy ID: 173545

ID on this website: 101086269

Location: Ware Street, Maidstone, Kent, ME14

County: Kent

District: Maidstone

Civil Parish: Bearsted

Built-Up Area: Maidstone

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description



In the entry for:

TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET
(north side)

Cross Keys Cottage
6/39

The address shall be amended to read:

TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET
(north side)

6/39 Cross Keys Cottage
and Nos 1 and 2
Cross Keys Cottages

The description shall be amended to read:

House and 2 cottages. Cross Keys Cottage is late C16 or early C17. Nos 1 and 2
Cross Keys Cottage are early to mid C19. Cross Keys Cottage is timber framed
under painted pebble-dash with applied framing on the first floor of the front
elevation. Plain tiled roof. Built at right angles to the road. 2 storeys and
attics, roof half-hipped at left end and hipped to right. No obvious stack. 3
dormers with ornamental bargeboards, 2 to front elevation and one in right end hip.
3 timber framed bays. Irregular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes, one to left
and 2 towards right. 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right of left sash.
C20 glazed door off centre to left, under the mullioned window, in a C20 glazed
porch with pitched plain tile roof. Small C20 extension to right. Interior has
exposed beams joists and posts. Nos 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottages are early C19 to
mid C19. Two storeys. No 1 is mainly painted brick and rest of No 1 and No 2 are
painted brick on the ground floor and tile hung in alternate 3 courses of plain and
curved tiles on the first floor. Tiled roof with 2 brick chimneystacks. South
west front of No 1 has 1 12-paned sash and gabled weatherboarded porch with side
light and bargeboard with finial and pendant. North west front has 1 gabled dormer
with barge boards and 3 windows, 1 12-pane sash and 2 C20 casements. Cambered
dormers to No 1 and gabled weather porch with bargeboard and finial to No 2.

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TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET
(north side)

6/39 Cross Keys Cottage

II

House. Late C16 or early C17. Timber framed under painted
pebble-dash with applied framing on first floor of front elevation.
Plain tile roof. Right angles to road. 2 storeys and attics,
roof half-hipped at left end and hipped to right. No obvious
stack. 3 dormers with ornamental bargeboards, 2 to front eleva-
tion and one in right end hip. 3 timber-framed bays. Irregular
fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes, one to left and 2 towards
right. 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right of left
sash. C20 glazed door off-centre to left, under the mullioned
window, in a C20 glazed porch with pitched plain tile roof.
Small C20 extension to right. Interior: has exposed beams,
joists and posts.


Listing NGR: TQ8046455725

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