Chittenden
CHITTENDEN, SLIP MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084606
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Chittenden
- Statutory Address:
- CHITTENDEN, SLIP MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084606
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Chittenden
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHITTENDEN, SLIP MILL LANE
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:
- CHITTENDEN, SLIP MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75320 30757
Details
HAWKHURST SLIP MILL LANE TQ 7430-7530 (west side) 16/429 Chittenden GV II House. C15 and altered and extended C18 and c.1880 by George Devey, architect. Timber framed and part exposed close studding with plaster infill, and part clad and extended with red brick, tile hanging and applied framing. Plain tiled roofs. Hall house, probably Wealden plan in origin. Two storeys and attic with moulded bressummer to first floor and pargetted plaster frieze to roof with 2 hipped dormers and central projecting gabled semi-dormer and with moulded stacks to centre right and projecting and offset at end left. Two 3-light and one 2-light wooden casements on coved cills on first floor, with 3 casements in attic storey of semi-dormer and 3 glazing bar sashes on first floor. Three-light oriel, 2-light wooden casement in recessed, close studded portion and 4-light mullioned and transomed casement on ground floor with blocked opening to right. Entry by rib and stud door in recessed, moulded four centred arched doorway in left return. Extensive rear wings, in part C18 with red and blue brick on sandstone base, part late C19. Right return close studded and exposed, with jetty on brackets and sandstone plinth. Boarded door in porch with gabled bargeboard, probably C17 and resited on this elevation. Interior: large cambered arch-braced tie beams, with base of removed crown post, and with brace to carry projecting eaves now within the building. Ground floor with double ogee-moulded beams, and cambered dais beam with coved moulding and dragon beam in end left room. Much late C19 timbering. Devey built extensions to Marlborough House nearby at the same time. (See BOE. Kent, I, 1980, 317).
Listing NGR: TQ7531430766
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169779
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 317
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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