Gatehouse to Great Maytham
GATEHOUSE TO GREAT MAYTHAM, MAYTHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070886
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Great Maytham
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO GREAT MAYTHAM, MAYTHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070886
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Aug-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Great Maytham
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO GREAT MAYTHAM, MAYTHAM 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:
- GATEHOUSE TO GREAT MAYTHAM, MAYTHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rolvenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 84895 30730
Details
ROLVENDEN MAYTHAM ROAD 1. 5272 Gatehouse to Great Maytham (formerly listed as Gateway) TQ 8430 19/319 4.6.52. II*
2. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for H J Tennant in 1909-12. It consists of a carriage archway with a lodge or cottage on each side of it. Grey bricks (all stretchers) with red brick window dressings and quotas. Hipped tiled roof. On the inner face of the carriage archway are round windows and above it a clock face and wooden cupola. on the north-east side facing the road the Lodges flanking the archway are L-shaped. The portions immediately flanking the archway are of one storey and attics with one window bay each flanked by pilasters with a single window each at 1st floor level only, a moulded wooden cornice and a parapet over. The inner or south-west side of the Gatehouse facing the house has 3 windows and 3 dormers on each side of the carriage archway, all with segmental heads.
Listing NGR: TQ8489530730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 180364
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,
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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