Lynsted Court

Lynsted Court, Toll Lane, Lynsted, ME9 0RH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1069274
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:
Lynsted Court
Statutory Address:
Lynsted Court, Toll Lane, Lynsted, ME9 0RH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1069274
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:
Lynsted Court
Statutory Address 1:
Lynsted Court, Toll Lane, Lynsted, ME9 0RH

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Lynsted Court, Toll Lane, Lynsted, ME9 0RH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Swale (District Authority)
Parish:
Lynsted with Kingsdown
National Grid Reference:
TQ 94174 60619

Details

TQ 96 SW
2/96

LYNSTED
TOLL LANE (west side)
Lynsted Court

27.8.52

GV
I
Hall house, now house. C15 and c.1600. Timber framed and close-studded with plaster and painted brick nogging infill, and plain tiled roof. Ceiled two bay hall with screens, passage and projecting porch, and two projecting end wings added c.1600. Two storeys on flint and brick plinth.

Gabled wings left and right jettied with moulded bresummers and carved and moulded bargeboards, and ornamental bracing in right gable. Hipped main roof at end right. Irregular fenestration of oriel window in left gable and four-light bay window on ground floor, One three-light oriel to centre, with one wood casement and three wood casements on ground floor, and oriel on ground floor. Boarded door in two storey projecting porch, jettied at first floor and gabled. Door of six raised and fielded panels in gabled porch in one storey brick extension at end left.

Interior: hall now ceiled in (the house once three cottages), but two arched doorways in screens passage to service wing (right end) still visible; plaster ceiling of octagonal and rectangular panels. Formerly known as Seward's.

Listing NGR: TQ9417460619

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
176306
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 379

Other
Marshall Harvey sketch book, manuscript, 1916

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Lynsted Court

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