Elmhurst
ELMHURST, DUNDLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249525
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Elmhurst
- Statutory Address:
- ELMHURST, DUNDLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249525
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Elmhurst
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELMHURST, DUNDLE LANE
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:
- ELMHURST, DUNDLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 64235 39527
Details
TQ 63 NW BRENCHLEY DUNDLE LANE
9/69 Elmhurst
II
Former farmhouse. Circa mid C17 with late C17/early C18 alterations and C20 renovations. Framed construction, underbuilt in Flemish bond brick, the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces approximately north. The original arrangement appears to have been a 2 room plan main block with a lobby entrance, the 2 principal rooms heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack. An integral rear outshut provided a rear service room and stair cell with a good dog-leg stair. A one\room plan rear left wing is probably slightly, though not much later and may have functioned as a purpose-built kitchen, heated from an end stack. A small unheated room at the left (east) end of the main block is a late C17/early C18 addition. The compact plan and quality of the fireplaces and internal carpentry suggest a gentry status.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, symmetrical at the right. The left end addition is marked by a change in the level of the tile-hanging. C20 half-glazed door to right of centre with a glazed overlight and a flat porch hood on brackets. The bays flanking the front door are glazed with C20 3-light casements, 2-panes per light. The left hand bay has one ground floor and one first floor 3-light casement, no glazing bars to the lights. Roof half-hipped at ends. Axial stack with a staggered triple shaft with tile-hung batters, the top of the shaft renewed with a corbelled brick cornice. The rear elevation has C19 and c20windows including a French window. The rear wing has stone footings, the end stack with a shaft with a corbelled brick cornice.
Interior: High quality C17 features. The left hand of the 2 heated rooms has a scroll-stopped lintel. The stair cell has 3 good C17 doors in moulded frames with bar stops, stair with turned balusters. The rear wing has a scroll-stopped ceiling beam and exposed chamfered stopped joists, fireplace with brick jambs and an oak lintel. The 2 first floor fireplaces have stone jambs, one with a stone lintel.
Roof: Staggered butt purlin roof of 2 phases. The roof over the left end addition has a date of 1717, upside down, on one of the timbers.
A high quality C17 house with an interesting plan form and good interior features.
Listing NGR: TQ6423539527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431645
- 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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