St Marys Abbey Convent Building
ST MARYS ABBEY CONVENT BUILDING, SWAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1209132
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys Abbey Convent Building
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARYS ABBEY CONVENT BUILDING, SWAN STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-04-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/06710/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1209132
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- St Marys Abbey Convent Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARYS ABBEY CONVENT BUILDING, SWAN STREET
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:
- ST MARYS ABBEY CONVENT BUILDING, SWAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Malling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68271 57667
Details
WEST MALLING
TQ6857 SWAN STREET 1156-0/3/161 St Mary's Abbey: Convent building 25/08/59 (Formerly Listed as: SWAN STREET St Marry's Abbey)
GV I
Convent. C14 south side of abbey cloister with house erected by Isaac Honeywood by 1735 reusing stone from the ruined abbey and salvaging window surrounds on the site of an earlier timber-framed post-Reformation house shown in a print by Stukeley of 1724 and with early C19 alterations and C20 additions and alterations, when it reverted to a religious house. Built of stone rubble with tiled roof and 4 stone chimneystacks. 2 storeys and attics 7 windows. H-shaped. North front has ground floor C14 cloisters with 17 trefoliated-headed arches. End bays project having gable ends with wooden fretted bargeboards. Attic has lancet with leaded light. 1st floor has 6 double cinquefoil-headed lights but 2 single ones to the centre flanking a wheel window with carved spandrels. Ground floor now has a later C20 lean-to verandah in stone with pantiled roof not of special interest. The south front is of ashlar. It has 2 end projecting gables with bargeboards and the central section has 5 gabled dormers. Parapet and cornice to centre. Windows are mainly 2-light cinquefoil-headed windows but are 3-light to the lst floor of the end bays and central 1st floor window is a rose window. Ground floor end bays have C18 Geometrical traceried windows. Central arched doorcase of Gothick type with pilasters and circular fanlight. Interior has staircase hall with Gothick cornice, 2 C18 4-centred arched doorcases and wooden Gothick balustrading which is probably C19. Rest of interior not seen. C20 extension to east by Sir Charles Nicholson 1935 not of special interest. (Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: 578).
Listing NGR: TQ6829257677
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392469
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 578
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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