Well House With Rustic Seat at TQ 517455
WELL HOUSE WITH RUSTIC SEAT AT TQ 517455, B2176
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244258
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Well House With Rustic Seat at TQ 517455
- Statutory Address:
- WELL HOUSE WITH RUSTIC SEAT AT TQ 517455, B2176
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244258
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Well House With Rustic Seat at TQ 517455
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL HOUSE WITH RUSTIC SEAT AT TQ 517455, B2176
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:
- WELL HOUSE WITH RUSTIC SEAT AT TQ 517455, B2176
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:
- TQ5179645497
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
50/1547
PENSHURST
B2176 (off)
Well house with rustic seat at TQ 517 455
II
Well House with rustic seat. Built between 1810 and 1830 by William Wells.
An octagonal structure of rustic poles with roof covered with shingles on stock
brick plinth with red and black tiles. 3 sides have a framework of rustic branches
3 sides have entrances and the remaining 2 sides have the remains of benches
with backs of vertical planks and thin poles nailed into Gothic shapes with
scalloped pattern to the edge of the seat. The roof is boarded over and has 5
large pendants. In the centre is a spring with fountain lined in tiles with
stone rockery above. One of a number of garden features on the former Redleaf
estate whose gardens are on the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and
Gardens for Kent. (See Loudon's 1839 article from the Gardener's Magazine on
the Redleaf estate).
Listing NGR: TQ5179645497
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449182
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardeners Magazine in Gardeners Magazine - July, (1839)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,
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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