Stable Block and Walled Gardens About 50 Metres West of Rectory Park
STABLE BLOCK AND WALLED GARDENS ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF RECTORY PARK, RECTORY PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084544
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block and Walled Gardens About 50 Metres West of Rectory Park
- Statutory Address:
- STABLE BLOCK AND WALLED GARDENS ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF RECTORY PARK, RECTORY PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084544
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Stable Block and Walled Gardens About 50 Metres West of Rectory Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLE BLOCK AND WALLED GARDENS ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF RECTORY PARK, RECTORY PARK 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:
- STABLE BLOCK AND WALLED GARDENS ABOUT 50 METRES WEST OF RECTORY PARK, RECTORY PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsmonden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 70274 38778
Details
HORSMONDEN RECTORY PARK ROAD TQ 73 NW (north side) 4/93 Stable block and walled gardens about 50 metres west of Rectory Park GV II
Stables and walled gardens. Mid C18 with mid C19 clock turret. Red and blue brick with plain tiled roof. Stables with 2 storey central block and single storey flanking wings, all with plinth and brick dentil eaves to hipped roofs, that to left extended at lower level. Clock turret added to centre with open belfry and ornamentally tiled roof, the weather vane dated WMSM 1856 (William Marriot Smith- Marriot). Two segmentally headed glazing bar sashes to each floor of central block with central boarded door with semi-circular fanlight, and 2 glazing bar sashes to each wing with similar boarded doors and doorways, all openings with gauged brick heads. Left end extension with stack to rear left and glazing bar sash to return elevation. Interior: brick and granite sett floors and stalls and loose box frames remain, as do curious recesses in right hand rear wall used either as storage or as part of a special feeding system. Inner wall face in English bond brickwork, as is rear wall and parts of the attached walls to the walled gardens. These are some 7 to 8 feet in height with occasional openings and enclosing two courts,an irregularly shaped area about 30 by 15 metres, and a rectangular area about 50 by 40 metres
Listing NGR: TQ7032038807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169929
- 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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