Etherton Lawn
ETHERTON LAWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241676
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Etherton Lawn
- Statutory Address:
- ETHERTON LAWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241676
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Etherton Lawn
- Statutory Address 1:
- ETHERTON LAWN
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:
- ETHERTON LAWN
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 56217 41930
Details
TQ 54 SE SPELDHURST STOCKLAND GREEN
4/592 Etherton Lawn
II
House. Circa late 1860s; cream brick with red brick banding and grey, red and black polychromatic dressings including some sandstone; slate roof; stacks with cream brick shafts with red brick bands. Italianate.
Plan: South west facing. Approximately rectangular, symmetrical plan with short left and right wings projecting to the front, each originally heated from stacks on the outer returns; axial stack to left of centre heating the principal room in the centre. The left end stack has a truncated shaft. Details of plan unclear on survey as access to rear elevation and interior unobtainable.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Gabled roofs with shaped bargeboards, crested ridge and deep eaves on shaped brackets. Symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front, the outer bays the gable ends of the wings, the centre bay gabled to the front. Elaborate polychromatic detail with the window voussoirs in contrasting colours and the verges of the left and right gables decorated with a terra cotta frieze forming a pear-shaped pattern. Windows glazed with 2-pane plate glass sashes. 3 ground floor cnetre windows slightly recessed below polychromatic segmental arched voussoirs. Canted bay windows to the ground floor of the gabled projections with sandstone heads. Slate roofs with deep eaves, surmounted by wrought iron railings. The bays have French windows in the centre with segmental arched doors below an overlight and 2-pane flanking sashes. Triple round-headed windows above the bays, the centre window wider, all with polychromatic voussoirs. The centre window in the main block is recessed below a segmental polychromatic arch. The gable over has a timber pendant.
Interior: Access unobtainable at time of survey but original features may survive.
A C19 villa with a particularly attractive and lively polychromatic exterior.
Listing NGR: TQ5621741930
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440795
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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