ST MARY'S GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED STEPS, SEAT, LAMP, DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND LETTERBOX

ST MARY'S GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED STEPS, SEAT, LAMP, DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND LETTERBOX, 64, OAKHILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272475
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: ST MARY'S GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED STEPS, SEAT, LAMP, DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND LETTERBOX
Statutory Address:: ST MARY'S GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED STEPS, SEAT, LAMP, DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND LETTERBOX, 64, OAKHILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1272475
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:: ST MARY'S GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED STEPS, SEAT, LAMP, DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND LETTERBOX
Statutory Address 1:: ST MARY'S GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED STEPS, SEAT, LAMP, DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND LETTERBOX, 64, OAKHILL ROAD

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:: ST MARY'S GATEHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED STEPS, SEAT, LAMP, DRINKING FOUNTAIN AND LETTERBOX, 64, OAKHILL ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Sevenoaks
National Grid Reference:: TQ 52292 54583

Details

SEVENOAKS OAKHILL ROAD TO 55 SW 4/158 No 64 St Mary's Gatehouse including attached Steps, Seat, Lamp, Drinking Fountain and Letterbox - II

House with attached steps, seat, street lamp, drinking fountain and letterbox. 1915. Built by Charles W Bowles FRIBA for Henry Percy Thompson as a memorial to his parents. House is in Tudor style, timber-framed with plaster infilling on sandstone base. Peg-tiled roof with 2 paired diagonally-set brick chimney stacks to ridge and large external brick and stone chimneystack with paired diagonal shafts to sides. 2 storeys: 3 windows. Each end has projecting gable with cusped barge-boards and pendants, close-studding with crenellated tie beams and quatre- foil ornaments. Central bay has 4-light mullioned casements with leaded lights, other windows are 2-light. Ground floor front has filled in Tudor arch flanked by cinquefoil-headed sidelights, probably original the main entrance, which is now in a porch on the right hand side elevation. To the left is an open passageway lead- ing to St Mary's Church (also endowed by Henry Percy Thompson). This has a moulded bressummer, 4 centred arch flanked by cinquefoil headed lights and rows of cinque- foil headed lights to side. Plastered ceiling with fleur-de-lys and shield motifs and lead plaque with inscription to the donor's parents. The rear elevation is close-studded and has a projecting gable with attached glazed stair- case. Interior has a staircase with splat balusters, wooden fireplace with Delft tiles. Attached to the house is a section of curved walling of stone, brick and tiles with a series of stone steps, which divides in the middle to enclose a triangular wooden seat with an Art Nouveau lamp standard comprising square wooden pier with square glass and iron lantern surmounted by finial. Attached to the left-hand side is a stone wall incorporating a metal drinking fountain and a Victorian wall letter box. Behind the house the flight of curved stone steps continues, terminating in 2 brick piers with stone cornices. The rent from letting the house was designed to serve as part of the benefice stipend.

Listing NGR: TQ5229254583

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.