Went House
WENT HOUSE, SWAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1219391
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Went House
- Statutory Address:
- WENT HOUSE, SWAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1219391
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Went House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WENT HOUSE, 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:
- WENT HOUSE, 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 68338 57741
Details
WEST MALLING
TQ6857 SWAN STREET 1156-0/3/151 Went House 01/08/52
GV II*
House. c1710 with late C18 L-wing. Exceptionally fine Queen Anne front. Built of brown brick with red brick dressings with steeply pitched tiled roof to front range and slate roof to wing. 4 tall red brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows to front, with 2 window spaces in end projection, 4 windows to left side elevation. Front has stone coping and panelled parapet. Moulded terracotta eaves cornice 5 cambered 12-pane sashes with jalousies and centre brick keystones. Recessed rectangular brick panels. Deep plinth. Central doorcase with cornice, reeded pilasters, rectangular fanlight, panelled reveals and 8-panelled double doors. Left side elevation has 1 narrow 8-pane sash, 2 12-pane cambered sashes and ground floor has two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. To the left is a projecting bay of diaper brickwork with cambered 16-pane sash to 1st floor and cambered 6-pane sash with horns to ground floor. External brick chimneystack with tumbling in. Ragstone extension to rear. Interior has fine main staircase of c1710 with 3 turned balusters and scrolled tread ends and panelled hall with dado rail. Right side ground floor room has dado panelling and an C18 fireplace with eaved architrave, swags and panel with carved basket of fruit. Subsidiary winder staircase with turned balusters. (Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: 579).
Listing NGR: TQ6833857741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392472
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 579
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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