Rumwood Court
RUMWOOD COURT, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060892
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Rumwood Court
- Statutory Address:
- RUMWOOD COURT, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060892
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Rumwood Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUMWOOD COURT, NEW ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- RUMWOOD COURT, SUTTON 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:
- RUMWOOD COURT, NEW ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- RUMWOOD COURT, SUTTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79978 52227
Details
LANGLEY SUTTON ROAD TQ 75 SE (north side) 1/96 Rumwood Court 26.4.68 GV II
House, now flats. 1599, restored in C19, with additions of 1896 and alterations of 1950s. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Main range of 2 or possibly 3 unequal length bays. Projecting porch towards left end with projecting bay window to right of it. Broad projecting wing to right end. 1896 additions to left end and rear. 2 storeys, attics and cellar on stone plinth. Close-studded. Moulded fillet towards eaves of main range, with restored close-studded coving above. Strapwork decoration to bases of principal posts of porch and wing. Porch and right wing jettied to first floor and attic on moulded bressumers with carved brackets. Eaves of porch raised above attic jetty and jettied again. Gable over bay window also jettied, with moulded bressumer and brackets. Carved bargeboards and pendant to porch [restored in C19], bay window, and wing [with pendant dated 1599]. Roof abuts 1896 section to left. Brick stack with 2 fillets in front slope of roof in narrow right end bay of main range. Irregular fenestration of ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows. 8-light oriel window with side lights to first floor of porch, on carved brackets, with moulded cill, jambs and head. Mullioned 3-light attic window. Bay has stone base and 18-light ground-floor window with side lights, and with head higher than jetty of wing; "first floor" close studded. 3-light mullioned window within gable. Cross window immediately to right of bay and small inserted 3-light window to right end of main range. Wing has 10-light rectangular oriel to first floor, on carved brackets, with side lights, and with frieze window to each side, that to left returning along left side of wing. Similar canted bay window to ground floor, also with frieze windows returning to left. 8-light attic window. Various windows to right side of wing. C16 ribbed outer door to porch in architrave with moulded jambs. Inner doorway has moulded jambs with decorative chamfer stops. Small gabled bay and gabled cross-wing added to left end 1896 in similar style. Interior not inspected but said to have much altered late C16 fireplace, and panelling. [Illustrated, with measured details, in Examples of Carved Oak Woodwork of the 16th and 17th Centuries, William Bliss Saunders, 1883].
Listing NGR: TQ7997852227
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bliss Saunders, W, Examples of Carved Oak Woodwork of the 16th and 17th Centuries, (1883)
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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