Gate Piers and Pair of Gates at the Entrance to Mountains
GATE PIERS AND PAIR OF GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO MOUNTAINS, NOBLE TREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248299
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers and Pair of Gates at the Entrance to Mountains
- Statutory Address:
- GATE PIERS AND PAIR OF GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO MOUNTAINS, NOBLE TREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248299
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Gate Piers and Pair of Gates at the Entrance to Mountains
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE PIERS AND PAIR OF GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO MOUNTAINS, NOBLE TREE 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:
- GATE PIERS AND PAIR OF GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO MOUNTAINS, NOBLE TREE 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:
- TQ5619448875
Details
TQ 54 NE
5/179
HILDENBOROUGH
NOBLE TREE ROAD (south side)
Gate piers and pair of gates at the entrance to Mountains
GV
II
Gate piers, gates and fencing. Probably 1865, contemporary with Mountains and
probably designed by G. Somers Clarke for the Johnson family. Sandstone gate
piers; iron gates. High Victorian Gothic.
Gate piers square on plan at the base the upper sections octagonal; pair of
iron gates; 2 sections of outward curving fencing to left and right.
Elaborate High Victorian gate piers, the upper parts battered, one batter with
a brattished cornice. Each pier is crowned with a Gothic style iron lamp
bracket with ornamental detail. The gates have curved diagonal braces, spike
finials, a solid middle rail with pierced ornament and a standard ornamented
with wrought iron foliage.
A well-preserved example of a High Victorian gateway.
Listing NGR: TQ5619448875
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179612
- 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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