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18-22, High Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Lenham, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2366 / 51°14'11"N

Longitude: 0.7173 / 0°43'2"E

OS Eastings: 589783

OS Northings: 152111

OS Grid: TQ897521

Mapcode National: GBR QT6.G4H

Mapcode Global: VHKK5.D51V

Plus Code: 9F326PP8+JW

Entry Name: 18-22, High Street

Listing Date: 26 April 1968

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1060975

English Heritage Legacy ID: 173913

ID on this website: 101060975

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)

10/178 Nos. 18-22 (even)
26.4.68.
GV II
House row. Probably late C16/early C17. C18 front, at least
partly rebuilt in late C20. No. 22 almost completely reassembled in
late C20. Timber-framed, with chequered red and grey brick facade
and plain tile roof. Right gable and rendered, on stone plinth.
2 storeys, attics and cellar. Facade in 2 sections with straight
joint between. Nos. 20 and 22 on short plinth with brick eaves
band and moulded wood eaves cornice. No. 18 on shallow plinth
with moulded wood eaves cornice. Roof half-hipped to right.
Brick ridge stack to left end, and another off-centre to right
between Nos. 18 and 20. 3 dormers with trefoiled bargeboards.
Irregular fenestration of two 3-light casements, one to left end to
no. 22, one towards centre to No. 20, and one recessed glazing-
bar sash towards right end of no. 18. Half-glazed doors with
flat bracketted hoods to Nos. 20 and 22 up 3 steps, between the 2
first-floor casements. Half-glazed door to No. 18 up 4 steps
with reeded surround with paterae to corners and shallow flat
hood with paired modillions. Cellar access in brick-work of
canted ground-floor bay window of No. 18. Interior: No. 22 possibly
retains side-purlin roof. Re-used late C16/early C17 timbers.
Interiors Nos. 20 and 18 not inspected.


Listing NGR: TQ8978452116

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