ROADSIDE HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN

ROADSIDE HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, GROOMBRIDGE HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240714
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ROADSIDE HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address:: ROADSIDE HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, GROOMBRIDGE HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240714
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: ROADSIDE HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN
Statutory Address 1:: ROADSIDE HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, GROOMBRIDGE HILL

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:: ROADSIDE HORSE TROUGH AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN, GROOMBRIDGE HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Speldhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 53272 37944

Details

TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (west side), OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/517 Roadside horse trough and drinking fountain

GV II

Horse trough and drinking fountain. Dated 1894 and erected in memory of William Coston Oswell who built the Norman Shaw house, Hillside (q.v.) further up the hill. Polished grey limestone with some glazed red brick. Both are set into a coursed sandstone wall revetting the hillside. They are set alongside the road up Groombridge Hill facing south. The trough is supported on 2 piers of glazed brick. It is set in front of a back piece built of brick up as high as the rim and is surmounted by a large limestone panel with curvilinear shaped head. In the centre a vesica-shaped panel is scribed with the date 1894 above an inscription in capital letters commemorating William Coston Oswell. There are stone shelves each side of the trough. Nearby, to right, is the drinking fountain which is built in the style of an ecclesiastical piscina with a trefoil-headed niche and projecting bowl on moulded base.

This horse trough and drinking fountain form part of the important group of listed buildings in the vicinity of Groombridge Place (q.v.) and Old Groombridge village.

Listing NGR: TQ5327237944

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Legacy System number:: 439222
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.