Seal Laundry
SEAL LAUNDRY, WILDERNESSE AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272452
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Seal Laundry
- Statutory Address:
- SEAL LAUNDRY, WILDERNESSE AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272452
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Seal Laundry
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEAL LAUNDRY, WILDERNESSE AVENUE
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:
- SEAL LAUNDRY, WILDERNESSE AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Seal
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54948 56646
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:
TQ 5456 NE SEAL WILDERNESSE AVENUE 27/1037 SEAL LAUNDRY GV II
Former stable block, currently a laundry. Built c 1886 for Sir Charles Mills who bought Wildernesse House and remodelled it at this time. Quadrangular stable block with attic accommodation built of snecked kentish ragstone with sandstone dressings and hipped tiled roof. One storey and attics. Front elevation has central projecting bay with large round-headed carriage arch with keystone and impost blocks and double 9 panelled doors and curbing stones flanked by rusticated giant piers with balustrading above incorporating central pedimented dormer windows. Ashlar square clock tower flanked by pilasters with hipped roof surmounted by metal weathervane. On either side are 3 blank round-headed arches with keystones and impost blocks. At the corners are pavilions with hipped roofs and pedimented dormers with feet and one round-headed window. Moulded eaves cornice and plinth. Right side elevation is of 2 storeys with moulded cornice and stone platband, to right is an external chimneystack with 6 paned sash to left with horns. To the left of this are 3 sashes under a hip and a first floor door. Left side elevation is similar. The entrance arch is vaulted in sandstone. The interior courtyard has a series of sash windows, first floor loading doors and cambered doorcases. Opposite the entrance is a C20 lean to with double doors imitating the original carriage doors and to the right is a late C20 brick factory extension not of special interest. The rear range has 2 stone well staircases with cast iron stick balusters and wooden handrail terminating in a baluster. Circular apertures remain in the ceilings of the stables and there are feed shutes still remaining,a sand-headed alcove in one corner of the courtyard was originally a pump. The courtyard is paved in granite slabs.
Listing NGR: TQ5494856646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449202
- 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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