Snowfield
SNOWFIELD, YEOMAN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086270
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Snowfield
- Statutory Address:
- SNOWFIELD, YEOMAN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086270
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Snowfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- SNOWFIELD, YEOMAN 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:
- SNOWFIELD, YEOMAN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bearsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79747 55915
Details
BEARSTED YEOMAN LANE To 75 NE (west side) 5/43 Snowfield II House. C19, rebuilt Circa 1911 by A.N. Prentice in an early C18 style, for Montagu Barstow, husband of Baroness Orczy . Red brick with plain tile roof. 2 storeys with plinth, quoins, cement- rendered platt band, moulded wood eaves cornice and panelled stone-coped parapet. 3 stacks well behind parapet, one towards each end and one well to right of centre. Regular 7 window front of 6 glazing bar sashes with thick glazing bars, cement cills and segmental heads with gauged brick voussoirs and cement rendered keystones. 2 bays at either end project to front. Central venetian window in stone, with flagpole above. Doorcase of fluted pilasters carrying entablature of triglyphs alternating with military emblems, with triangular pediment over. Early-to- mid C19 service block remains in evidence to rear on left side. Interior: contains structure but no direct evidence of, C19 building. All detailing carefully worked in an early C18 style, virtually unaltered since. High standards of craftsmanship throughout. House of Baroness Orczy circa 1905 - 1919.
Listing NGR: TQ7974755915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173549
- 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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