NEVILL HOUSE

NEVILL HOUSE, NORWOOD LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096350
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: NEVILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NEVILL HOUSE, NORWOOD LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096350
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Feb-1989
List Entry Name:: NEVILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NEVILL HOUSE, NORWOOD LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: NEVILL HOUSE, NORWOOD LANE

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

County:: Kent
District:: Gravesham (District Authority)
Parish:: Meopham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 64271 67583

Details

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TQ 66 NW MEOPHAM NORWOOD LANE

4/83 Nevill Lodge

II

C.1840 stuccoed. Two storey. Hipped slate roof. Three sash windows. Porch with 2 Doric columns and flat roof.

TQ 66 NW MEOPHAM NORWOOD LANE

4/83 Nevill House (formerly included as Nevill Lodge)

II

House. Circa 1840. Stuccoed brick. Hipped slate roof with black ridge tiles and deep eaves with cast-iron ogee gutters. 2 symmetrical rebuilt brick axial stacks. Plan: Double-depth almost square plan with 2 principal rooms at the front the right hand slightly larger and a narrow central entrance hall between with a tight open- well staircase. At the back 2 smaller heated rooms, the left hand room is the kitchen from which rises the back staircase. Between the 2 back rooms a back lobby and staircase to the pantry in the cellar below the front left hand room. Exterior: 2 storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 3-window front with plinth and band at first floor window sill level; moulded stucco window architraves, the first floor with keyblocks, the ground floor with cornices on console brackets and sills with small terminal brackets. C19 sashes with margin panes. Central doorway with C19 flush panel and glazed door, small rectangular overlight, decorated iron grille under the threshold and stuccoed partico with Tuscan columns and massive entablature. The first floor window sill band continues on returns and at rear. The right hand side has 2 C19 sashes on first floor and one on ground floor to right, those on right with 12-panes, that on left with margin panes. Left hand side has C19 12-pane sash on first floor to left and C19 horizontally sliding sash to basement with glazing bars and iron bars. The rear elevation has C19 12-pane sashes, one at centre on first floor and to left and right on ground floor with doorway to right of centre with C19 flush panel door. Interior: Most of the original interior joinery survives including panelled doors and sliding window shutters. Front right hand room has moulded plaster cornice and marble chimneypiece. The front left hand room has similar chimneypiece but ceiling has been replaced. Original open-well open string staircase with stick balusters, moulded mahogany hand-rail wreathed over ornate cast-iron newel. The rear left hand room has large kitchen fireplace with chamfered segmental arch and bracketed shelf - the iron range has been taken out. To the side of the fireplace rises the back staircase. The chimneypiece has been removed from the small rear right hand fireplace. On the first floor the ceilings and chimneypieces in the front rooms have been replaced, but the back rooms have small simple wooden chimneypieces with ornate iron grates. The pantry in the cellar has wooden shelve and a brick floor.

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TQ 66 NW MEOPHAM NORWOOD LANE 4/83 Nevill Lodge II

c1840 stuccoed. Two storey. Hipped slate roof. Three sash windows. Porch with 2 Doric columns and flat roof.

Listing NGR: TQ6427167583

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Legacy System number:: 356812
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.