Oakhill Lawn
OAKHILL LAWN, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248036
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Oakhill Lawn
- Statutory Address:
- OAKHILL LAWN, LONDON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248036
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Oakhill Lawn
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKHILL LAWN, LONDON 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:
- OAKHILL LAWN, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hildenborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 57175 48446
Details
HILDENBOROUGH LONDON ROAD (north east side) TQ 54 NE 5/132 Oakhill Lawn - GV II
Villa. Circa 1820s or 1830s in origin, slightly enlarged shortly after it was built. Flemish bond brick; peg-tile roof; stacks with rendered shafts.
Plan and Development: The house faces south. The main block is a rectangular double depth plan, 2 rooms wide, with a central entrance into a passage off which the stairs rise. The 4 ground floor rooms are heated from back-to-back fireplaces in the axial stacks. The 2 front rooms were probably drawing and dining rooms, the rear left room perhaps a parlour. The rear right room was the butler's pantry, alongside the service stair leading down to the kitchen and service rooms in the half-basement, which have their own entrance on the east elevation. In the circa 1840s single-storey projecting bays were added to left and right of the main block, enlarging the 2 front principal rooms.
Exterior: 2 storeys with half-basement and attic; a hipped roof with deep eaves and axial stacks. Symmetrical 3-bay south front plus one-bay additions to left and right. A flight of stone steps leads up to the early C19 recessed panelled front door which has panelled reveals, a rectangular overlight with margin glazing and a pediment. Early C19 12-pane sash windows with rubbed brick flat arches to the first and ground floor; 2-light casement windows to the half basement; flat roofed dormers to the attic. The left and right bays each have one 12-pane sash, flanked by concrete pilasters which may be later additions. The right hand bay has a concrete parapet with a moulded cornice, this has been replaced by a plain parapet on the left hand bay. The left return of the left bay has an early C19 bowed tripartite sash, 12-panes in the centre flanked by 4-pane outer lights. The main block retains its original early C19 12-pane sashes with rubbed brick flat arches. The right hand bay is blind at the right end. The rear elevation also retains its early C19 sashes; the rear door is C19, altered and half-glazed in the C20.
Interior: Early and circa mid C19 features include a stick baluster stair; doors and doorcases; shutters; skirtings; chimney-pieces and cornices.
A nice example of an early C19 gentleman's villa. Group value with the early C19 coach house at the rear (q.v.).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179569
- 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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