Garden Court and Attached Walls

GARDEN COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119592
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Garden Court and Attached Walls
Statutory Address:
GARDEN COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1119592
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
Date of most recent amendment:
21-Jan-2002
List Entry Name:
Garden Court and Attached Walls
Statutory Address 1:
GARDEN COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GARDEN COURT AND ATTACHED WALLS, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Hawkhurst
National Grid Reference:
TQ7568530785

Details

HAWKHURST

1351/16/340
22-JUN-89

HIGH STREET
(North side)
Garden Court and attached walls
(Formerly listed as:
HIGH STREET
Wall adjacent to and west of Oakfield and former Coach House)

GV
II

Former coach house, converted to residence, and garden walls. Early C19 with some C20 alterations. Garden Court was formerly the coach house to Oakfield, (now Oakfield House and Wellington House). Built of red brick with hipped slate roof and end brick chimneystacks. One to two storeys: five windows. Central part of two storeys with central arch filled in with Diocletian window on first floor and two traceried oculi on each side. Ground floor has left side doorcase with wooden weatherhood on brackets, rectangular fanlight and sidelight and two C20 five-light canted bays. End bays of one storey with hipped roofs and C20 four-light casements under cambered arches. Walls are of red brick or white stocks. South section fronting road is of white stocks to outer side and red brick with black headers to the inner side, both Flemish bond. Brick plinth, panels, moulded stone coping and eight square piers with pyramidal stone caps. West section is of red brick, also in Flemish bond ramped up to the south west corner and with brick buttresses. East section has curved part in white brick in header bond to south east, remainder in red brick in Sussex bond with brick coping, incorporating blocked entrance with two brick piers with pyramidal stone caps and ramped spur in front of Garden Court. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TQ7568530785

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Legacy System number:
169690
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.

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