SOUTHDOWN HOUSE THE SQUARE

SOUTHDOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258914
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE THE SQUARE
Statutory Address:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258914
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Sep-1976
List Entry Name:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE THE SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE SQUARE, 2-9, HIGH STREET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: SOUTHDOWN HOUSE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE SQUARE, 2-9, HIGH STREET

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 54780 46422

Details

LEIGH LEIGH 1. 5280 High Street (South Side) Nos 1 to 9 (consec) (The Square) TQ 5446 19/684 II GV 2, Shallow, U-shaped range of buildings of almshouse appearance. Late C19. Tiled roofs with tall, fancy brick chimneys. 2 storeys, one or 2 windows each, all under gables except for outer part of left and all of right wing. Picturesque neo-Tudor style with some oversailing attics and 1st floors. Varied materials including stone, brick, half timbering with pebble dash, and wood shingles. Boarded doors. Casements windows of many lights, some canted bays, some square some oriels on carved brackets.

Nos 1 to 9 (consec) The Square and The Cottage form a group.

Nos I to 9 (consec) (The Square) shall be amended to read

Southdown House and Nos 2 to 9 (consec) (The Square)

The group value note should now read

Southdown House, Nos 2 to 9 (consec) The Square and The Cottage form a group.

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LEIGH LEIGH

1. 5280 High Street (South Side) Nos 1 to 9 (consec) (The Square) TQ 5446 19/684 II GV 2. Shallow, U-shaped range of buildings of almshouse appearance. Late C19. Tiled roofs with tall, fancy brick chimneys. 2 storeys, one or 2 windows each, all under gables except for outer part of left wing and all of right wing. Picturesque neo-Tudor style with some oversailing attics and 1st floors. Varied materials including stone, brick, half timbering with pebble dash, and wood shingles. Boarded doors. Casement windows of many lights, some canted bays, some square, some oriels on carved brackets.

Nos 1 to 9 (consec) The Square and The Cottage form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5478046422

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Legacy System number:: 445276
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.