Whites
WHITES, BALCOMBES HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084746
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Whites
- Statutory Address:
- WHITES, BALCOMBES HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084746
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Whites
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITES, BALCOMBES 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:
- WHITES, BALCOMBES HILL
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 72358 37423
Details
GOUDHURST BALCOMBES HILL TQ 7237-7337 (south east side) 15/68 Whites GV II House. 1905, built by Davis and Leavey, builders of Goudhurst. Red brick with painted wooden details and with plain tiled roof. Neo-Georgian style. Entrance front: 2 storeys, with plinth, brick quoins and moulded modillion eaves cornice to three-span roof, with central open pediment shaped gable flanked by projecting hipped wings with stacks to left, rear centre left (on garden front cross-range) and to right; and to left is projecting outbuilding. Central stair window with narrow glazing bar sash to left on first floor, and 2 on each floor to right. Central panelled door in moulded brick surround. Single storey range projecting to left and to left return (with catslide outshut to main range). Three-bay side elevations, with glazing bar sashes with louvred shutters. Garden front: main formal elevation, with 2 storeys and attic, with plinth, brick quoins and moulded wooden modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with 3 hipped dormers. Regular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes on first floor and 2 on ground floor, all with louvred shutters. Central half-glazed door in doubled columned porch with cornice. Interior: sales particulars shows oak panelled entrance hall, panelled dining room and turned baluster dog-leg stair.
Listing NGR: TQ7235837423
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169418
- 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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