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Monument details

HER Number:TR 05 NW 84
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:AKHURST COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1799


Grid Reference:TR 03322 55954
Map Sheet:TR05NW
Parish:SELLING, SWALE, KENT
SHELDWICH, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1460 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1069079: AKHURST COTTAGE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 NW SELLING SHEPHERD'S HILL (east side)
1/48 Akhurst Cottage
GV II
House. C15 clad C18. Timber framed and clad with painted brick. Plain tiled roof. Hall house. One storey and attic, roof hipped to left, half- hipped right with 1 hipped dormer and stacks clustered to centre and end right. Four metal and wooden casements and outshot to left. Entry by boarded door in rear elevation. Interior: full frame visible; moulded dais beam; roof with collars but without longitudinal members, possibly of early date.
Listing NGR: TR0332355955 (1)

Description from record TR 05 NW 37:
GII Med House

Small and low house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. Both ends have been rebuilt. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040381 AKHURST COTTAGE, SELLING 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. RCH01/048/01/587 Labelled sheet of drawings of Akhurst Cottage, Shepherd's Hill, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor and a dais beam profile


<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.