Westwell

WESTWELL, ROLVENDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1071156
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
Westwell
Statutory Address:
WESTWELL, ROLVENDEN ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1071156
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
Westwell
Statutory Address 1:
WESTWELL, ROLVENDEN 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.

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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

Location

Statutory Address:
WESTWELL, ROLVENDEN ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Tenterden
National Grid Reference:
TQ 87710 33064

Details

1. 1715 ROLVENDEN ROAD (North Side)

Westwell TQ 8733 SE 2/116 8.5.50.

II*

2. A large square mansion dated 1711. 2 storeys and attic red brick. Roof has 4 gabled dormers and 4 high brick chimneys symmetrically placed. Panelled brick parapet. Long and short stone quoins. Stone architraves and keystones over ground floor windows. Stone cornice above 1st floor With a broken pediment above the central window and the date in the tympanum, 7 tall narrow windows and 2 oval windows on the 1st floor. Doorcase with fluted pilasters, rectangular fanlight, large flat hood over it supported on carved brackets and a 6-panel moulded door. On the east side is another doorcase with a high rectangular fanlight, large pediment-shaped hood and a 6-panel moulded door. This side has 4 windows and 3 dormers. The interior has a staircase with 3 twisted balusters to each step.

Listing NGR: TQ8771033064

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
179800
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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