It should not be assumed that this site is publicly accessible and it may be on private property. Do not trespass.
Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 75 SE 195 |
---|
Type of record: | Listed Building |
---|
Name: | FLORENCE HOUSE AND FLORENCE COTTAGE, Loose |
---|
Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1832 Florence Cottage
Grid Reference: | TQ 7568 5214 |
---|
Map Sheet: | TQ75SE |
---|
Parish: | LOOSE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
---|
Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1450 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1250465: FLORENCE HOUSE AND FLORENCE COTTAGE |
---|
Full description
If you do not understand anything on this page please contact us.
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CHURCH STREET TQ 7552 LOOSE (West Side) 6/182 Florence House and Florence Cottage 23.5.67 (formerly listed as premises occupied by K Richards with house attached) GV II
House, formerly house and shop, now house pair. Early C17, possibly with C16 or earlier core. Late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Main range clad with plain weatherboarding, right wing and addition with beaded weatherboarding. Plain tile roof. Main range of 2 separately- framed timber-framed bays, possibly an open hall, largely or wholly rebuilt in at least two stages in the C16 and C17. Cross-wing to right flush with main range and extending to rear. Short 2-storey late C18 or early C19 addition to front of right wing. 2 storeys on rendered plinth. Right bay of main range formerly jettied to front, first floor flush with whole of left bay. Roof half-hipped to left. Right wing gabled to front with slightly higher eaves, and half-hipped to rear. Front addition with slightly lower ridge, half-hipped to front. Projecting red brick stack to left gable end of main range. Buff brick ridge stack to junction of main range and right wing, and brick stack to left side of front addition. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one 3-light casement to left bay, one hipped 3-light through dormer with moulded cornice towards right end of main range, and one 16-pane sash to front addition. Late C18 or early C19 shop front to ground floor of front addition, with 2 multipane rectangular bay windows with rounded corners, and cills supported on raked iron struts. Panelled door between the windows, and flat leaded canopy over all. Panelled door with two top lights in reeded architrave to left end of right bay of main range. Panelled door with flat bracketed hood to right side of wing. Rear lean-to to left and short tile-hung rear wing to right of main range. Interior: exposed framing. Evidence for former front door under jetty behind present door to main range, and for stairs in front corner of left bay. Moulded end-of-hall beam, possibly re-used, to right end of right bay. Fireplace to right end of right bay, with chamfered stone jambs and low cambered bressumer. Arch-braced tie- beam. Roof of largely re-used rafters trenched for collars. Right wing and addition not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7568252136 (1)
Description from record TQ 75 SE 73 :
Listed building : no additional information available
Storeyed end bay of a medieval house with former stairs at front. The present hall range is 16th century and has a continuous jetty. (2)
Historic England archive material: BF040338 FLORENCE COTTAGE, LOOSE File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/432 Labelled plan of the ground-floor of Florence Cottage, Loose
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
<2> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |