LITTLE OAKLANDS OAKLANDS HOUSE OAKLANDS HOUSE AND LITTLE OAKLANDS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS

LITTLE OAKLANDS, LANGTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240717
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: LITTLE OAKLANDS OAKLANDS HOUSE OAKLANDS HOUSE AND LITTLE OAKLANDS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: LITTLE OAKLANDS, LANGTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240717
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: LITTLE OAKLANDS OAKLANDS HOUSE OAKLANDS HOUSE AND LITTLE OAKLANDS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE OAKLANDS, LANGTON ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: OAKLANDS HOUSE AND LITTLE OAKLANDS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, LANGTON ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: OAKLANDS HOUSE, LANGTON 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:: LITTLE OAKLANDS, LANGTON ROAD
Statutory Address:: OAKLANDS HOUSE AND LITTLE OAKLANDS INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY RAILINGS, LANGTON ROAD
Statutory Address:: OAKLANDS HOUSE, LANGTON ROAD

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 54940 39225

Details

TQ 53 NE SPELDHURST LANGTON ROAD (north side), LANGTON GREEN 8/524 Oaklands House and Little Oaklands including front boundary railings II

House divided into 2 with railings fronting Langton Road. Circa mid C19. Stuccoed with a slate roof with lead rolls; stuccoed chimney shafts. Classical revival.

Plan: South facing and slightly set back from the road. The main block (Oaklands House) is rectangular, double depth on plan, 2 rooms wide with an entrance on the east side into a stair hall. Rear right (north east) wing (Little Oaklands), probably 3 rooms on plan, may be the original service wing. C20 infill in the angle between the 2 properties.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 4-bay front with rusticated quoins, a hipped roof and projecting left and right stacks; the shafts with deeply- projecting moulded cornices on brackets. Deep eaves on scrolled, fluted eaves brackets; moulded string at first floor level with an egg-and-dart frieze. The tall ground floor windows have projecting hoods of segmental pediments carried on consoles with acanthus decoration. Below the hoods a frieze of patterned encaustic tiles; moulded sills carried on moulded brackets; windows glazed with horned 2-pane sashes with vertical margin glazing. The first floor windows have eared and shouldered architraves and similar glazing. Asymmetrical 3-bay east elevation with a flat-roofed Doric porch with an entablature and square corner piers, the doorway on the south side with a part-glazed 4-panel door. The east return of the porch has an arch-headed window. To the right a shallow stair projection contains a round-headed sash window with margin panes. Little Oaklands has been rewindowed with aluminium windows.

Interior: Access unobtainable at time of survey but may preserve original features.

Boundary railings to the front (south) of Oaklands House are flanked by 2 gateways. The gateway piers are stuccoed, square on plan with moulded cornices and flattened pyramidal caps. The railings curve outwards from the inner piers, on a stuccoed brick base with a brick cornice. The railing verticals are round on plan with elaborate fleur de lis finials.

Listing NGR: TQ5494039225

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Legacy System number:: 439229
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.