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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 55 SW 105
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:4 AND 5 DORSET STREET

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799

Grid Reference:TQ 5302 5468
Map Sheet:TQ55SW
Parish:SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1336358: 4 AND 5 DORSET STREET

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
DORSET STREET 1. 1614 (South Side) Nos 4 and 5 TQ 5354/1/53 II GV 2. C18. Red brick elevation with parapet and ridge tile roof, half hipped to right 3-window facade. 2 storeys. Small, tiled dormer in centre. Shop fronts on ground floor with painted brick surround and stucco plinth. C18 half glazed door in centre with rectangular fanlight over. Moulded wooden cornice over shop windows and long painted panel above with shop sign. First floor with 3 C18 sash windows with glazing bars with flat segmental brick arches over. 1 small light in centre. No 4 is a corner building where Dorset Street widens. Painted brick elevation facing West with corner shop front and C18 sash window on first floor. Attic window in gable end. [Nos 4 to 8B (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5302354689 (1)

In 1994 a survey on cellars in the Sevenoaks area was undertaken. 4 and 5 High Street was found to have the entire floor area taken by the cellar. (2)


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> ?, 1994, Sevenoaks Cellar Survey (Unpublished document). SKE17186.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Unpublished document: ?. 1994. Sevenoaks Cellar Survey.