RUSTIC SEAT IN GROUNDS OF REDWOOD AT TQ 522451

RUSTIC SEAT IN GROUNDS OF REDWOOD AT TQ 522451, B2176

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272448
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1990
List Entry Name:: RUSTIC SEAT IN GROUNDS OF REDWOOD AT TQ 522451
Statutory Address:: RUSTIC SEAT IN GROUNDS OF REDWOOD AT TQ 522451, B2176

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272448
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1990
List Entry Name:: RUSTIC SEAT IN GROUNDS OF REDWOOD AT TQ 522451
Statutory Address 1:: RUSTIC SEAT IN GROUNDS OF REDWOOD AT TQ 522451, B2176

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: RUSTIC SEAT IN GROUNDS OF REDWOOD AT TQ 522451, B2176

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

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Penshurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ5216844999

Details

The following building shall be added to the list:-

TQ 54 NW 50/1546

PENSHURST B2176 (off) Rustic seat in grounds of Redwood at TQ 522451 II

Rustic seat. Built between 1810 and 1830 by William Wells. Timber framed structure, 5 sides of an octagon with 5 rustic poles connected by weatherboarding on brick plinth with exterior covered in heather and roof thatched with wooden carved finial surmounted by C20 metal weathervane. Interior has slatted seat with scalloped edges and brick pairing. One of a number of garden features on the former Redleaf estate whose gardens are on the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens for Kent. (See Loudon's 1839 article from the Gardener's Magazine on the Redleaf Estate).

Listing NGR: TQ5216844999

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 449181
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Gardeners Magazine' in Gardeners Magazine - July, (1839)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,

Legal

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