Tollgate
TOLLGATE, HIGHGATE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084607
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tollgate
- Statutory Address:
- TOLLGATE, HIGHGATE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084607
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Tollgate
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOLLGATE, HIGHGATE HILL
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:
- TOLLGATE, HIGHGATE HILL
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 75944 30093
Details
HAWKHURST HIGHGATE HILL TQ 7430-7530 (east side) 16/330 Tollgate (formerly listed as 11.8.88 The Toll House) GV II Tollgate. Mid C19. Sandstone with plain tiled roof. Simple rectangular plan, single storey and attic to roadside, 2 storeys to rear. Roadside with plinth and shaped kneelered parapet gable, with concave and convex curved outline and cross- shaped pinnacle. Central stack with star-plan moulded stack. Single narrow attic light and mullioned stone canted bay on ground floor. Boarded door in right return in porch with smaller shaped gable, with loop-cross in end wall, and shouldered door opening to roadside. Boarded door to rear right on ground floor, and stone mullioned windows to return and rear elevations. The house stands on a high embankment, part of the engineering works of the associated turnpike road (now the 4229).
Listing NGR: TQ7594430093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169680
- 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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