Manor House and Attached Garden Wall
MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LOWER TWYDALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259712
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LOWER TWYDALL LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05073/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259712
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House and Attached Garden Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LOWER TWYDALL 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:
- MANOR HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, LOWER TWYDALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80340 67913
Details
GILLINGHAM
TQ86NW LOWER TWYDALL LANE, Twydall 686-1/8/123 (South East side) 24/02/50 Manor House and attached garden wall (Formerly Listed as: TWYDALL LANE, Twydall (South East side) Twydall Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C17-early C18, extended C18 and late C19. Brick, mathematical tile side range, with brick gable and lateral stacks, and tiled roof. PLAN: L-shaped single-depth plan with C18 N extension, and late C19 S extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; road front 3-window range. Complex of various builds; Flemish bond road front has a moulded plat band, with a left-hand boarded door, and rubbed brick flat arches to 8/8-pane sashes in flush frames; the late C19 right-hand 1-window section has a lower end with paired gables with raised kneelers and central blind windows to both floors, extending half the depth of the end gable which has brick coping, a 6/6-pane attic sash with a flush frame, and a large exterior stack part enclosed by the extension. Rear wing has a straight joint in from the header bond rear gable, which has a stack, brick coping, the bond extending up to a straight joint, from which Flemish bond extends to the front range. At the N end is third section set forward from the main entrance, of C18 header bond with 2 ground-floor windows and a lateral stack, and a canted oriel in the left-hand return with 8/8-pane and flanking 4/4-pane sashes. The rear has a gabled dormer with 8/8-pane sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick wall with coped top extending approx. 100m round garden to N. The N section has battered buttresses. HISTORY: formerly the farmhouse accompanying the other listed farm buildings, including the fine C15 Twydall Barn (qv), with which it has group value.
Listing NGR: TQ8034167914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462608
- 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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