LYNCH HOUSE

LYNCH HOUSE, 21, CLARENDON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085967
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: LYNCH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LYNCH HOUSE, 21, CLARENDON ROAD

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Date:: 2003-08-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1085967
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: LYNCH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LYNCH HOUSE, 21, CLARENDON ROAD

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:: LYNCH HOUSE, 21, CLARENDON ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Sevenoaks
National Grid Reference:: TQ 52509 54824

Details

CLARENDON ROAD 5280 0/1147 No 21 (Lynch House) II shall be amended to read:- TQ 5255/1 CLARENDON ROAD SP1147 No 21 (Lynch House) - 3.10.86 II

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CLARENDON ROAD 1. 5280 II 0/1147 No 21 (Lynch House) 2. House. 1899 by Niven and Wigglesworth, in a free late C17 and C18 style. Red brick in Flemish bond, with rubbed brick dressings. First floor and gable of left gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret. Rear wing 2 storeys and basement. Moulded rubbed brick string course at impost level of ground-floor windows. Asymmetrically shaped end gables with moulded brick coping, and a further shaped gable to left of centre of front elevation. Brick gable end stacks with moulded cornices. Irregular fenestration of 4 sashes; one to left and two to right of gable, each comprising three 6-pane sashes separated by mullions, and one taller 12-pane sash in open box and with blind semi-circular panel above it under the gable. All first-floor windows have moulded brick architraves, chamfered brick cills and shaped rubbed brick aprons. Sash under gable also has a long tapered and corniced keystone above the blind panel, and is flanked by grey brick diaper work. Deep Diocletion-style windows to ground floor, with similar keystones and chamfered brick cills. Half-glazed and panelled double doors under front gable, with moulded rubbed brick architrave and leaded canopy on scrolled brackets. Broad rear return wing to left with a pair of shaped brick gables to rear, two 3-light first-floor windows and 2 Diocletian ground-floor windows with keystones and iron balconettes. Canted bay window. to ground floor of left side, with panelled base, blind boxes, dentilled wooden cornice and ogee leaded roof. Interior: bevelled glass to hall screens. Moulded (18-style cornices to two ground-floor rooms (one with modillions),landing and four first-floor rooms. Five C18 style fireplaces. Panelled doors. Staircase with corkscrew balusters, moulded handrail and scrolled top newel with ball finials.

Listing NGR: TQ5250954824

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Legacy System number:: 172273
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.