Westernhanger
WESTERNHANGER, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119621
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Westernhanger
- Statutory Address:
- WESTERNHANGER, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07140/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119621
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Westernhanger
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTERNHANGER, MAIDSTONE 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:
- WESTERNHANGER, MAIDSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsmonden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 70634 41612
Details
HORSMONDEN MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 74 SW (east side) 1/72 Westernhanger 20.10.54 GV II
House. C15 altered and extended C16. Timber framed and exposed with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Wealden hall house, the hall infilled and the whole extended with a continuous jettied wing. The Wealden lies hip end to the road, with 4 framed bays of 2 storeys, the centre bays infilled with close studding, the rest panelled frame with tension bracing with jetty to right and returned to right, the left end wing obscured by C20 outshot. Hipped roof. Irregular wooden casements and C20 door in outshot. Roadside elevation consists of the return jettied bay of the Wealden with blocked mullioned window and 3 light wooden casement on first floor and 2 light casement on ground floor, and a 3 bay continuous jettied extension, close studded with a moulded bresummer and gabled roof with stack cluster to end right in a small framed bay, possibly originally a smoke bay. Blocked mullioned windows ranged under eaves, with 2 and 3 light wooden casements on first floor and 3 light casement on ground floor, with rib and stud door to left in four centred arched opening and identical blocked opening to right of that, either for another door or a window.
Listing NGR: TQ7063441612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169911
- 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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