The Gatehouse to Lullingstone Castle
THE GATEHOUSE TO LULLINGSTONE CASTLE, LULLINGSTONE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1217173
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse to Lullingstone Castle
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATEHOUSE TO LULLINGSTONE CASTLE, LULLINGSTONE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1217173
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse to Lullingstone Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GATEHOUSE TO LULLINGSTONE CASTLE, LULLINGSTONE LANE
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:
- THE GATEHOUSE TO LULLINGSTONE CASTLE, LULLINGSTONE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eynsford
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 52928 64411
Details
1. EYNSFORD LULLINGSTONE LANE 5280 Lullingstone The Gatehouse to TQ 56 SW 5/64 1.6.67 Lullingstone Castle I GV 2. C16. This was the outer Gatehouse of the house built by Sir Percyvall Hart between 1543 and 1580. (Of which parts remain in the later Lullingstone Castle) and was constructed sometime after the middle of the century. The inner Gatehouse was demolished in the mid C18. Red brick laid in English Bond, with traces of diaper pattern. In plan it consists of a rectangle with polygonal turrets attached to the outer face, and polygonal projections from the inner. In elevation it comprises a carriage archway with a room over flanked by turrets of 3 storeys. Machicolation and a castellated parapet to the whole. Casement windows with brick mullions. The outer side faces west and has a 4-centred brick carriage archway which retains its original ribbed double doors of 20 panels, and over it a cartouche and a single window of 2 tiers of 4 lights. Flanking this are hexagonal staircase turrets which rise higher than the remainder of the Gatehouse. These have quatrefoil loop lights and terracotta panels. Otherwise this side of the Gatehouse is blind. On the inner side is a similar moulded archway with brick dripstone and cartouche and similar window over and these are flanked by canted bays of 3 storeys which contain 4-centre pedestrian doorways with dripstones on the ground floor flanked by small rectangular single light windows and windows of 2 tiers of 3-lights on the first and second floors. AM.
Listing NGR: TQ5301664385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 411975
- 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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