Ulcombe Place
ULCOMBE PLACE, ULCOMBE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060852
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ulcombe Place
- Statutory Address:
- ULCOMBE PLACE, ULCOMBE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060852
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ulcombe Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- ULCOMBE PLACE, ULCOMBE HILL
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:
- ULCOMBE PLACE, ULCOMBE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 84693 49785
Details
ULCOMBE ULCOMBE HILL TQ 84 NW (west side) 5/199 Ulcombe Place GV II
Collegiate building, now house. Main range C15 or earlier. (College founded in C13). Early-to-mid C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Main range stone, rear additions red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. Plain tile roofs. Rectangular stone range at right-angles to road, with short rear additions. Main range: 2 storeys and attics. Facade continued into stone parapet. Parapet returns round gable ends and is swept up in brick to top of tall, broad, shallow, full- height brick projection to centre of each gable end, topped by smaller rectangular brick panel. Brick stack to left gable end, one rear stack to left and one to right. 5 dormers with moulded triangular pediments, three C18, two C20. Regular 5-window front of recessed 8-pane glazing-bar sashes with Venetian shutters. 5 French windows to ground floor with decorative blind boxes. Verandah with pendentive fringe, on slender Doric columns. Part of head of blocked 2-centred arched opening, probably a doorway, towards right end of ground floor. Short rear wing to right; early C18. 2 storeys on stone plinth, with wooden modillion eaves cornice and hipped roof. Irregular fenestration of 3 tall glazing-bar sashes. Rubbed brick voussoirs and keystones to ground-floor windows. Door of 6 fielded panels towards main range, with semi-circular fanlight, rusticated Doric pilasters and plain corniced frieze. 2 additions to centre and left of main range; C18 and early C19. Interior: small blocked 4-centred arched hollow-chamfered doorway to rear first-floor wall of main range. C18 staircase, panelling and cornices.
Listing NGR: TQ8469349785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174219
- 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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