Church Gate House

CHURCH GATE HOUSE, 15, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244023
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Church Gate House
Statutory Address:
CHURCH GATE HOUSE, 15, THE GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1244023
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Church Gate House
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH GATE HOUSE, 15, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH GATE HOUSE, 15, 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 44735 54069

Details

1. 5280 WESTERHAM WESTERHAM The Green (North Side)

No 15 (Church Gate House) TQ 4454 35/1366 10.9.54.

II GV

2. C17 house with alterations. 2 storeys attic and basement, 3 windows. High pitched, tiled roof with 2 gabled dormers, bracketed gutter and moulded fillet under eaves. Front now rendered. 1st floor sash windows in exposed frames under shallow segmental arches. Ground floor carriage doors to left. Central C19 door of 6 sunk panels, with plain rectangular fanlight, under pedimented hood on C19 curved brackets with pendants. 2 sash windows on right. East elevation of red brick has left section under gable holding large chimney stack with tumbled brickwork to offsets. Bands, at 1st floor and eaves level, pass right over chimney; the lower one is broken upwards above staircase window. Various windows including 2 C17 croisee windows and 2 small lights with old iron bars. Inside, original oak staircase with spiral turned pitch pine balusters. Also some dado panelling and an C18 corner cupboard, 2 restored inglenook fireplaces and brick cellar with barrel-vaulted bays. The house was once an Inn called the White Horse.

Nos 9 to 14 (consec) & No 15 (Church Gate House) with walls and yard form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ4473554069

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
448684
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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