Stair House
STAIR HOUSE, SCHOOL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099224
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Stair House
- Statutory Address:
- STAIR HOUSE, SCHOOL HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06255/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099224
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Stair House
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAIR HOUSE, SCHOOL 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:
- STAIR HOUSE, SCHOOL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamberhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67664 36312
Details
LAMBERHURST SCHOOL HILL TQ 6636-6736 (east side) 8/205 Stair House GV II
House, now flats. 1889 by Christopher and White, architects ( B.O.E. Kent, I, p.364). Red brick on sandstone base and tile hung with some exposed framing with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Picturesque 'Old English' style after the fashion of R. Norman Shaw. Main block to right of two storeys and attic on plinth with projecting and jettied gabled wing to left, 2 gabled dormers and large offset and moulded stack projecting at right, with similar moulded ridge stacks to left and to centre left. Full height half-octagonal bay to centre left and 3 light casements to right on each floor, and 2 and 4 light casements to left hand gable, with mullioned and transomed stone window on ground floor and boarded door in recessed four centred arched doorway. Oriel and irregular casements to right return. Two storey section to left, possibly a later extension, or else part of the service quarters differentiated externally, with jetty and with bargeboarded gables and oriel on first floor, and bay on ground floor, with one storey and attic linking block. Irregular extensions and wings to rear. On the site of the ancient Stone House where the manor courts of the holdings of Robertsbridge Abbey in Lamberhurst were held. See J.H. Moon, The Downhill Path.
Listing NGR: TQ6766436312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170042
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 364
Moon, J H, The Downhill Path, ()
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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