The Grasshopper Inn
THE GRASSHOPPER INN, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244020
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Grasshopper Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE GRASSHOPPER INN, THE GREEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244020
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- The Grasshopper Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GRASSHOPPER INN, THE GREEN
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:
- THE GRASSHOPPER INN, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westerham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 44673 54052
Details
1. 5280 WESTERHAM WESTERHAM The Green (North Side)
The Grasshopper Inn TQ 4454 35/1355
II GV
2. 2-storey 3-window building altered late C18 and early C19. Modern projecting public house front with rendered facade and Welsh slate roof. Covered way into yard to right with Inn signboard over. First floor. Red painted tile hanging. 3 sets of C19 casement windows. Moulded eaves board and bracketed gutter. Ridge tile roof with one end hipped. The whole elevational treatment masks a C16 or older framed structure. Rear elevation early C19 red brick with blue headers. Sash windows with glazing bars. Roof ridges at right angles to road. Inside old bar fittings including rare pink Wedgwood beer handles. Historic Associations. The Grasshopper Inn takes its name from the grasshopper incorporated in the crest of the Gresham family who owned the Manor of Westerham from the time of Henry VIII till the late C17.
Nos 1 to 3 (consec) and the Grasshopper Public House form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ4467354052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 448675
- 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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