TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS TO THE GARDEN SOUTH OF ST MICHAELS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261069
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1977
List Entry Name:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS TO THE GARDEN SOUTH OF ST MICHAELS
Statutory Address:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS TO THE GARDEN SOUTH OF ST MICHAELS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1261069
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1977
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS TO THE GARDEN SOUTH OF ST MICHAELS
Statutory Address 1:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS TO THE GARDEN SOUTH OF ST MICHAELS

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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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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Location

Statutory Address:: TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS TO THE GARDEN SOUTH OF ST MICHAELS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Speldhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 52079 37712

Details

TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST BURRSWOOD, OLD GROOMBRIDGE

16/470 Terrace walls and steps to the 18.1.77 garden south of St Michaels(formerly listed as Terrace Wall to Burrswood) GV II

Terrace walls and steps. Probably early C20, dating from a period when the garden was designed by the brother of the owner, a newspaper magnate called Johnstone (Lee). Rusticated stone.

The coped wall immediately south of the house has a series of deep low buttresses on the south side. Steps lead down to the second terrace, the steps with flanking ramped walls surmounted by ball finials. The walls of the second terrace are surmounted by urns.

Included for group value with St Michaels (q.v.).

source, Lee, Barbara. Groombridge Old and New (1978), p.25.

Listing NGR: TQ5207937712

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Legacy System number:: 438768
Legacy System:: LBS

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Lee, B, Groombridge Old and New, (1978), 25

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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.