FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH

FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, VIGO ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236169
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH
Statutory Address:: FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, VIGO ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1236169
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH
Statutory Address 1:: FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, VIGO ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FAIRSEAT MANOR AND GARDEN WALL TO NORTH, VIGO ROAD

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County:: Kent
District:: Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:: Stansted
National Grid Reference:: TQ 62202 61440

Details

TQ 66 SW STANSTED VIGO ROAD 2/11 (south side) 1.8.52 Fairseat Manor and garden wall to north

II*

House. Elevation of circa 1700 to C17 re.ar block. Red brick with blue headers and red dressings and pilasters. Concealed slate roof. 2 storeys on brick plinth with platband and tall parapet with band. 2- 2- 2 bay facade, divided by 4 giant pilasters, each surmounted by a plaster wren above the cornice. Glazing bar sashes in flat-arch surrounds, the side dressings carried up as vertical bands of red headers. Small slit glazing bar sash windows either side of door and above on 1st floor. Central panelled door in flat doorcase of fluted Tuscan pilasters, the entablature with ogee ornament and dentilled cornice. C17 brick and tile-hung block to rear, gabled at each end. Interior. 2 c.1700 panelled rooms and panelled hall with 3-flight newel staircase behind on ground-floor. 1 panelled room on 1st floor. Bolection moulding fireplaces in all these rooms. Evidence of timber-framing in rooms on block behind, especially roof joists and wall-plates.

Listing NGR: TQ6220261440

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Legacy System number:: 427096
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.