Lorenden
LORENDEN, HIGHGATE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084609
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lorenden
- Statutory Address:
- LORENDEN, HIGHGATE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084609
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Lorenden
- Statutory Address 1:
- LORENDEN, 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:
- LORENDEN, 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 75967 30487
Details
HAWKHURST HIGHGATE HILL TQ 7430-7530 (west side) 16/333 Lorenden 11.8.88
GV II House. C16, extended C18, and altered and clad mid C19. Timber framed and rendered with tile hung and red brick rear wing. Plain tiled roof. Front eleva- tion treated in Gothic cottage style. Two storeys and attic on plinth with moulded string course and gables to left and to right with pierced and moulded bargeboards with stack projecting at end right and central moulded stack. Trian- gular and moulded headed gable casements, and two 4-light mullioned and transomed windows on ground floor. Central half-glazed moulded panelled door with trian- gular fanlights and triangular headed side lights in gabled porch with pierced and moulded bargeboards with flight of 5 steps and sidewalls. Interior: full framed interior visible, with quirk-and-tongue stopped-chamfered cross-beamed ceilings. Side purlin with wind brace roof and Queen post roof to cross wing at right. Probably continuously jettied with cross wing originally. Vaulted passage through central stack. Cellar lined in English bond brick.
Listing NGR: TQ7596730487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169683
- 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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