Lake House
LAKE HOUSE, STAPLEHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116298
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lake House
- Statutory Address:
- LAKE HOUSE, STAPLEHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116298
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lake House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAKE HOUSE, STAPLEHURST ROAD
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:
- LAKE HOUSE, STAPLEHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frittenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 81240 42304
Details
FRITTENDEN STAPLEHURST ROAD TQ 84 SW (north side) 3/47 Lake House
GV II House. C15, extended and altered C17 to C19. Timber framed, clad with weather boarding and tile-hanging to 1st floor, and part exposed to rear right with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Probable hall house in origin. Road front: 2 storeys with 2 moulded bargeboarded gables, that to left larger with 2 tripartite sashes on each floor and glazed door. Left return with glazing bar sash to left on 1st floor and to right on ground floor, with wooden casement at end left. Rear right returns present entrance front. 2 storeys, with project- ing cross-hipped wing to right, with exposed frame on 1st floor and large stack cluster to centre. Separately hipped wing to left, with stack at end left. Wooden casement to left. glazing bar sash to right on 1st floor; 3-light wooden casement to right on ground floor, with mullioned window to left to curved link- ing passage (to adjoining barn, now converted to part of residence). Central boarded door with flat hood on brackets. The exposed frame is not the original exterior wall of the building, as shown by exposed mortices, but on interior truss, with arch-braced tile beam.
Listing NGR: TQ8124042304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169397
- 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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