MARLE PLACE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATEWAY WALL TO THE NORTH WEST

MARLE PLACE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATEWAY WALL TO THE NORTH WEST, MARLE PLACE ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250611
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: MARLE PLACE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATEWAY WALL TO THE NORTH WEST
Statutory Address:: MARLE PLACE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATEWAY WALL TO THE NORTH WEST, MARLE PLACE ROAD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2003-05-26
Reference:: IOE01/10794/22
Rights:: © Dr Ray Hawkins. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250611
Date first listed:: 20-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: MARLE PLACE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATEWAY WALL TO THE NORTH WEST
Statutory Address 1:: MARLE PLACE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATEWAY WALL TO THE NORTH WEST, MARLE PLACE ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MARLE PLACE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALL AND GATEWAY WALL TO THE NORTH WEST, MARLE PLACE ROAD

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 68090 39787

Details

TQ 63 NE BRENCHLEY MARLE PLACE ROAD

10/153 Marle Place including courtyard 20.10.54 wall and gateway wall to the north west GV II

House. Early C17 (porch dated 1619) with some C18 internal refurbishment. C19 alterations (date of 1858 on rear addition); late C19 conservatory addition. Framed construction, tile-hung in the C19 with bands of scalloped tiles; C19 tiled roof with bands of scalloped tiles; brick stacks. Early C20 gateway.

Plan: The house faces north. The early arrangement was a compact 2 room lobby entrance plan to the main block, the principal rooms heated by back-to- back fireplaces in an axial stack with a rear centre stair projection. The position of the original services is not clear,one of the front rooms may have served as a kitchen or the services may have been sited to the rear where considerable remodelling has taken place. The stair projection was extended in 1858, and this may be the date of a more extensive phase of remodelling although other alterations appear to be late C19/early C20, including a cross passage broken through the axial stack on the ground floor, extensive window repair and the Vernacular Revival style cladding of the frame. Late C19 photographs by the local Brenchley photographer, William Hodges, show the conservatory under construction.

Exterior: 2 storeys, and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front, 2 gables to the front with a projecting gabled 2-storey porch in the centre, the gables with deep eaves, moulded bargeboards, pendants and finials. Fine chimneyshaft to the axial stack with 4 octagonal clustered shafts with moulded star-shaped cornices. Fine gabled porch, with an early C17 ovolo-moulded outer doorframe, the returns of the porch on the ground floor each incorporating a balustrade of 6 turned balusters. Late C19/early C20 C17 style 6-panel porch door with elaborately decorated strap hinges. The first floor of the porch has a coved oriel with a 5-light ovolo-moulded transomed window, the transom with a cornice. The gabled bays to left and right each have a 2-storey canted bay with a hipped roof with one first and one ground floor ovolo-moulded mullion and transomed window, 4-lights to the centre, one to each return; 3-light mullioned attic windows with square leaded panes. The left (east) return has 2 gables to the east. The ground floor canted bays are late C19/early C20, the left hand bay with moulded mullioned windows, the right hand bay with French windows. First and attic floor 3- and 4-light transomed windows with square leaded panes. The rear elevation is irregular, with 2 rear wings, one on either side of the stair projection which has been extended in 1858. A late C19 conservatory with a crested iron ridge adjoins the main block at the right (west) end. Courtyard wall to the north west with an early C20 gateway included in the listing.

Interior: Interesting features from a number of different periods. The cross passage broken through the axial stack has a circa early C20 coved ceiling. The right hand ground floor room was refurbished in the early C18 with wall panelling, a bolection-moulded chimney-piece with integral cupboards, a cornice and decorated plaster ceiling frieze. Fine C17 dog-leg stair with turned balusters, an open string, moulded handrail and peaked finials. The stair shows evidence of alteration with flights down to the cellar and to an open fronted closet off the half landing. The first floor rooms preserve original C17 high-set ovolo-moulded 3-light windows, blocked externally. The first floor left hand room has a moulded ceiling beam and exposed joists; the right hand room has plain ceiling carpentry probably designed to take a plaster ceiling. Late C19/early C20 panelling survives on both ground and first floors. Some of the jowled wall posts of the original frame are visible on the first floor.

Roof: Clasped purlin roof over the main range and stair projection.

Marle Place is a high quality early C17 house with interesting later features.

A reproduction of a late C19 drawing of the house by William Twopeny exists in the National Monument Record.

Listing NGR: TQ6809039787

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 432464
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.