WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MANOR

WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MANOR, SPELDHURST HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241632
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MANOR
Statutory Address:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MANOR, SPELDHURST HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241632
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MANOR, SPELDHURST 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:: WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MANOR, SPELDHURST 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 55417 41455

Details

TQ 55 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (south side), SPELDHURST 12/587 Walls, gate-piers and gates at the entrancce to The Manor

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Walls, gate-piers, pair of timber gates. Probably 1880s, contemporary with alterations to the Manor (q.v.) for Charles W. Powell. Sandstone ashlar walls and piers; timber and iron gates, the original oak replaced with a softwood copy in 1989 but re-using the old ironwork. The retaining walls curve inwards to the gateway and curve up to the gate-piers with a chamfered moulding below the coping. Gate-piers square on plan with a deep chamfered plinth and chamfered cornice. Pair of striking, substantial openwork timber gates, each with asymmetrical diagonal braces, the moulded cusped timbers forming a lattice pattern with iron cross-pieces in each panel and tall, moulded cusped styles. Inside the entrance, on the south side, a well-house in the same ownership as the Cottage (q.v.) (the neighbouring house to the south) is ashlar masonry with a doorway with a high quality C17 panelled door with richly-moulded panels.

Listing NGR: TQ5541741455

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Legacy System number:: 440790
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.