CULVER HOUSE HAMMERFIELD HAMMERFIELD COTTAGE HAMMERTOWER

CULVER HOUSE, PENSHURST ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1243267
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: CULVER HOUSE HAMMERFIELD HAMMERFIELD COTTAGE HAMMERTOWER
Statutory Address:: CULVER HOUSE, PENSHURST ROAD

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Date:: 2007-05-11
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1243267
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: CULVER HOUSE HAMMERFIELD HAMMERFIELD COTTAGE HAMMERTOWER
Statutory Address 1:: CULVER HOUSE, PENSHURST ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: HAMMERFIELD COTTAGE, PENSHURST ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: HAMMERFIELD, PENSHURST ROAD
Statutory Address 4:: HAMMERTOWER, PENSHURST 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:: CULVER HOUSE, PENSHURST ROAD
Statutory Address:: HAMMERFIELD COTTAGE, PENSHURST ROAD
Statutory Address:: HAMMERFIELD, PENSHURST ROAD
Statutory Address:: HAMMERTOWER, PENSHURST ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Penshurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ5233244361

Details

1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Penshurst Road (West Side)

Hammertower. Hammerfield. Culver House. Hammerfield Cottage. TQ 5244 22/842

II

2. Earlier C19 house converted and extended in 1859 by George Devey for Sir James Nasmyth, the astronomer, engineer and inventor of the steam hammer. Now divided into 4 residences. Hammerfield Cottage, at the west end, was the former observatory and workshop, the other dwellings form the original house. Entrance front of 2 storeys, 5 windows, with projecting, gabled, porch section, and octagonal tower with ogee leaded roof. Irregular building typical of Devey's style, with large-diapered brickwork and gables with ball finials. Garden front shows 5 different bargeboarded gables, mostly half timbered, with brick or plaster filling; and some tile hanging. Large mullioned and transomed windows, some of wood and some of stone. Terrace with low balustrade.

Listing NGR: TQ5231144359

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Legacy System number:: 446924
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.