Donnington Manor Hotel (formerly Emma Hotel)
Donnington Manor Hotel, London Road, TN13 2TD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253947
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington Manor Hotel (formerly Emma Hotel)
- Statutory Address:
- Donnington Manor Hotel, London Road, TN13 2TD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253947
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Donnington Manor Hotel (formerly Emma Hotel)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Donnington Manor Hotel, London Road, TN13 2TD
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:
- Donnington Manor Hotel, London Road, TN13 2TD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunton Green
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 50695 58121
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 May 2023 to amend the name and address, remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 55 NW
42/358
DUNTON GREEN
DUNTON GREEN
London Road (east side)
Donnington Manor Hotel
(Formerly listed as Donnington Manor Restaurant Emma Hotel, previously listed as Donnington Manor Restaurant)
II
House, now hotel. Restored timber framed house of C15 origin, with adjoining lobby entry wing of late C16 or C17; later converted to cottages; knocked into one, remodelled and extended in 1936-37; South East wing of 1937 further extended after 1968. Front elevation formerly tile-hung above and of brick below, with tile hanging continuing into North West return. Since 1937, timber framed and plastered, incorporating studs added in 1937. Plain tile roof with half-hipped North West end and gable to C15 cross-wing and to South East. post 1968 wing. Two storey gable ended porch wing in centre, in front of former lobby entry; oak studded door. On ground floor, two modern oriel bay windows with hipped tile roof, one also on first floor in C15 wing, in porch wing and at first floor in North West return. Various lead panel casements of 1936-37. Two small tiled dormers of 1936-37. The C15 wing may originally have been jettied, and it retains a moulded truss at first floor. The whole building has been very much restored but is still substantially an old structure. Large, later C20 additions to rear, facing car park.
See pre-ferbishment photo in Gordon Anckorn, A Sevenoaks Camera, 1979.
Listing NGR: TQ5069558121
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357138
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Anckorn, G, A Sevenoaks Camera, (1979)
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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