ALDERDEN OLD MANOR AND ALDERDEN MANOR

ALDERDEN MANOR, SPONDEN LANE, SANDHURST, TN18 5NR

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085159
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: ALDERDEN OLD MANOR AND ALDERDEN MANOR
Statutory Address:: ALDERDEN MANOR, SPONDEN LANE, SANDHURST, TN18 5NR

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1085159
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: ALDERDEN OLD MANOR AND ALDERDEN MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: ALDERDEN MANOR, SPONDEN LANE, SANDHURST, TN18 5NR
Statutory Address 2:: ALDERDEN OLD MANOR, SPONDEN LANE, SANDHURST, TN18 5NR

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ALDERDEN MANOR, SPONDEN LANE, SANDHURST, TN18 5NR
Statutory Address:: ALDERDEN OLD MANOR, SPONDEN LANE, SANDHURST, TN18 5NR

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 79615 29154

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/01/2018

TQ72NE 1350-0/5/249

SANDHURST SPONDEN LANE Alderden Old Manor and Alderden Manor

(Formerly listed as Alderden Old Manor, previously listed under Sponden Road)

09/06/52

II* House. C16 or earlier timber framed building, extended and restored in C20. Left hand part close-studded, right hand part box-framed. Two storeys; five windows. Hipped tiled roof with one clustered brick chimneystack, the base late C16, the top restored, and C16 external brick chimneystack with tumbling in and two flues set diagonally to left. Two hipped dormers. Casements with wooden mullions and transoms and diamond-shaped leaded panes. Two windows to each floor have two tiers of four lights, the east one on both floors flanked by small windows, the ground floor one a six-light oriel. C20 four-centred arched doorcase with rose and pomegranate in spandrels. Side elevation has C20 doorcase in similar style with wheels in spandrels and high stops. Rear elevation has brick ground floor and is tile hung above. Attached to rear is a timber framed building with plaster infill said to be a resited C15 barn. Lounge has early C17 panelling and very fine Jacobean overmantel with pilasters and angels.

Listing NGR: TQ7961529154

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Legacy System number:: 170351
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.