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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SW 176 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | 13 HIGH STREET |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1899. No 13 High St - house
| Grid Reference: | TQ 53121 54214 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SW |
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| Parish: | SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1450 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1086019: 13 HIGH STREET |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HIGH STREET 1. 1614 (West Side) No l3 TQ 5354/1/30 13.4.51 II GV 2. With Nos 15 and 17. Originally an inn but is now divided into 5 houses. C16 or earlier framed structure, 2.1.3. facade. 2 storeys. Large centre projecting gable feature with fishscale tile-hanging on first floor, First floor of projecting gable feature over-sailing. Supporting wings on either side with plain tile hanging on first floor. Continuous ridge tile roof, half hipped to left and with ridge stack to left of centre gables The old Post Office. C19 shop front on ground floor with projecting splayed shop windows with stucco fronts and centre plain boarded shop door. First floor tile- hung with slight pentice projecting over shop front on ground floor. one small lattice casement to left on first floor. Larger mullioned lattice casement to right with tiled eave raised over window head to form half dormer. Eaves with no gutter. Ridge tile roof, half hipped to left, and ridge stack to right. Nos 7 to 17 (odd) form a group. Listing NGR: TQ5312254215 (1)
Description from record TQ 55 SW 16 :
1614 HIGH STREET (West Side) No 13 TQ 5354/1/30 13.4.51 II* GV (TQ53125422 - O.S. 1:2500 1966) 2. With Nos 15 and 17. Originally an inn but is now divided into 3 houses. C16 or earlier framed structure, 2.1.3. facade. 2 storeys. Large centre projecting gable feature with fishscale tile-hanging on first floor. First floor of projecting gable feature over-sailing. Supporting wings on either side with plain tile hanging on first floor. Continuous ridge tile roof, half hipped to left and with ridge stack to left of centre gable. The old Post Office. C19 shop front on ground floor with projecting splayed shop windows with stucco fronts and centre plain boarded shop door. First floor tile-hung with slight pentice projecting over shop front on ground floor. One small lattice casement to left on first floor. Larger mullioned lattice casement to right with tiled eave raised over window head to form half dormer. Eaves with no gutter. Ridge tile roof, half hipped to left, and ridge stack to right. (2) Attractive tile-hung cottages in the High Street, including the Post Office; timber framed underneath. (3)
In 1994 a survey on cellars in the Sevenoaks area was undertaken. Used to ber one building with 15 and 17 High Street, cellars now partitioned but originally one. (4)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> DOE (HHR) Dist. of Sevenoaks U.D., Kent. Sept. 1972 22 (OS Card Reference). SKE40447.
<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 514 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38009.
<4> ?, 1994, Sevenoaks Cellar Survey (Unpublished document). SKE17186.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #30214 Building, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist. of Sevenoaks U.D., Kent. Sept. 1972 22. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 514 (J Newman). |
| <4> | Unpublished document: ?. 1994. Sevenoaks Cellar Survey. |
