Bishop House Jewell House
BISHOP HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060707
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop House Jewell House
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOP HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060707
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop House Jewell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOP HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- JEWELL HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOP HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- JEWELL HOUSE, ALBION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Marden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74737 44227
Details
TQ 7444 MARDEN ALBION ROAD (south-west side)
5/5 Bishop House and Jewell House 23.5.67 (formerly listed as Jewell House)
II
House. Early to mid C18Front elevation tile-hung on both floors. Right return elevation clad with channelled render. Vertical wooden fillet to each corner. Slate roof. Main range with wings projecting forwards to right and left. 2 storeys and attics on rendered chamfered plinth. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched roof, each wing hipped to front. Rendered ridge stack to each wing, set towards junction with main range. Flat-roofed dormer with bowed 12- pane sash in moulded architrave, to front hip of each wing. Regular 4-window front of one two-storey tile-hung bow window with bowed tripartite sash to each floor, to gable end of each wing, and one 12- pane sash on each floor towards each end of main range. Central double doors, each door of six fielded panels, set in moulded architrave with two fielded panels over doors. Open semi-circular distyle porch with plain frieze, modillions, and moulded cornice, up 3 semi-circular stone steps with slightly moulded risers, to Bishop House to centre of main range. Half-glazed door towards centre of left return elevation, to Jewell House. Interior: only partly inspected. Reeded friezes and architraves, panelled doors to front, and exposed wall posts and high axial beam to rear ground-floor room of Jewell House. Bishop House has staircase with turned balusters, and Ionic modillioned eaves cornice to front ground-floor room of right wing.
Listing NGR: TQ7473544234
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174661
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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