Culver House Hammerfield Hammerfield Cottage Hammertower
CULVER HOUSE, PENSHURST ROAD
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Overview
- 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
- Reference:
- IOE01/16316/01
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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 1:
- CULVER HOUSE, PENSHURST ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- HAMMERFIELD COTTAGE, PENSHURST ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- HAMMERFIELD, PENSHURST ROAD
- Statutory Address 4:
- HAMMERTOWER, PENSHURST ROAD
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446924
- 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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