Terrace Walls and Steps to the Garden South of St Michaels
TERRACE WALLS AND STEPS TO THE GARDEN SOUTH OF ST MICHAELS
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Overview
- 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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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438768
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lee, B, Groombridge Old and New, (1978), 25
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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