Outbuilding Immediately North East of Avalon
OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF AVALON, LEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248424
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuilding Immediately North East of Avalon
- Statutory Address:
- OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF AVALON, LEIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248424
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuilding Immediately North East of Avalon
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF AVALON, LEIGH ROAD
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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:
- OUTBUILDING IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF AVALON, LEIGH 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:
- TQ5635147463
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/06/2011
TQ 54 NE
5/192
HILDENBOROUGH,
LEIGH ROAD,
Outbuilding immediately north east of Avalon
(Formerly listed as Outbuilding immediately north east of Meopham Bank, POWDER MILL LANE (west side))
GV
II
Outbuilding, said to have been used as a studio by the painter, John Herring, who lived at Meopham Bank (now called Avalon) 1853-1865. Early C19. Rendered with a slate roof; brick stack.
Plan: Sited north east of the house between the kitchen wing and stable block. A small, square building facing south east with a stair cell at the left end with external access. The original function of the building is not clear, it may have been an implement shed with apple loft over but has functioned as a dairy. Herring was photographed in his studio (reproduced in Oliver Beckett's J.F. Herring and Sons (1981)) which is identified as this building.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Hipped slate roof. 2-window south east front with tail paired plank doors to the right, a 2-light C19 casement to the left and 2 12-pane C19 first floor sashes. A door on the left return gives access to the stair. 2 casements to the rear elevation. The brick stack in the rear right corner is probably a C20 addition.
Interior: Plain, the stair cell enclosed by a full height boarded partition.
Herring, who was a coachman before he became a successful painter, specialized in paintings of horses and rural scenes.
Group value with Avalon (formerly Meopham Bank) and the stable block.
Listing NGR: TQ5635147463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179625
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beckett, O, J F Herring and Sons, (1981)
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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