Porcupine House
PORCUPINE HOUSE, HILDENBOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258603
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Porcupine House
- Statutory Address:
- PORCUPINE HOUSE, HILDENBOROUGH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1258603
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Porcupine House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORCUPINE HOUSE, HILDENBOROUGH 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:
- PORCUPINE HOUSE, HILDENBOROUGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54924 46688
Details
LEIGH
771/19/702 HILDENBOROUGH ROAD 16-JAN-75 LEIGH (West side) Porcupine House (Formerly listed as: HILDENBOROUGH ROAD LEIGH East Lodge)
GV II House, late C19, probably by Sir Ernest George
MATERIALS: Half timbered with red brick plinth and stacks. Raised, chamfered, surface timbers with roughcast panels. Clay tiled roof and tile-hung side elevations. Iron casement windows.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and attic. The principal roof is steeply-pitched and runs east to west. The principal elevation faces south and comprises three gabled bays with over-hanging eaves and pendants. The central bay advances and to the right is a gabled porch with a tiled roof supported on carved Jacobean-style posts. The door has carved linenfold panels.
Porcupine House is situated to the north of the neo-Tudor lodge and gateway to Hall Place (no longer extant). The lodge and gateway (listed Grade II) date from the mid-C19 and are by the architect George Devey.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Porcupine House, Hildenborough Road, a late C19 house in the Vernacular Revival style is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: the house is a handsome and well-excecuted example of late C19 domestic architecture by a noted architect of the period * Group value: Porcupine House and the lodge and gateway to Hall Place form an attractive group of C19 architecture
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445293
- 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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