Kilndown House and Wall Projecting
KILNDOWN HOUSE AND WALL PROJECTING, RISEDEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084660
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Kilndown House and Wall Projecting
- Statutory Address:
- KILNDOWN HOUSE AND WALL PROJECTING, RISEDEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084660
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Kilndown House and Wall Projecting
- Statutory Address 1:
- KILNDOWN HOUSE AND WALL PROJECTING, RISEDEN 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:
- KILNDOWN HOUSE AND WALL PROJECTING, RISEDEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goudhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 70159 35609
Details
GOUDHURST RISEDEN LANE TQ 73 NW (east side) 5/259 Kilndown House and wall projecting GV II House. 1849-55. R C Carpenter, architect. Ashlar sandstone with some red brick with slate roof. Two parallel main ranges, with projecting service wings. Two stacks on plinth with gabled roofs, with cylindrical stacks to left and to right and with projecting 2 storeyed wing at right. Decorated style tracered stair window to upper left, with single light below, and 3 two light trefoil headed windows on 1st floor, and 2 of three lights on ground floor, and 1 of three lights on each floor of projecting wing. Arched doorway in corner porch across re-entrant angle of 2 wings. Original main entrance in hipped porch on left return, originally partly open with moulded arched outer doorway and open lights to side wall. Single storey and attic wing to right return, with end stack, 2 gabled half-dormers and single light window. Garden front with gabled half dormer and mullioned lights to service wing, main range with 4 trefoiled windows on 1st floor, 3 on ground floor and large canted bay with tracered lights. Projecting from the entrance front is a short length of wall, of sandstone and red brick, about 8 feet high and about 10 yards in length. Interior: moulded arched inner doorways with drip moulds lead from original main entry porch to stair hall, with stone main staircase. Wooden arched door surrounds, some original doors with brass hinges and escutcheons/key plates. Cast iron fireplaces in wooden surrounds with attached shafts and brackets. Turned baluster service stair. Built originally as the vicarage to Kilndown Church and part of the complex of buildings on the Bedgebury estate associated with A Beresford-Hope (see also Bedgebury Park; Kilndown Church etc).
Listing NGR: TQ7015935609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169609
- 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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