1-3, LEICESTER SQUARE

1-3, LEICESTER SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1273073
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
Statutory Address:
1-3, LEICESTER SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1273073
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Jan-1975
Statutory Address 1:
1-3, LEICESTER SQUARE

Location

Statutory Address:
1-3, LEICESTER SQUARE

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:
TQ 52765 43831

Details

1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Leicester Square

Nos 1 to 3 (consec) (Formerly listed as Cottages forming north east corner of The Square) TQ 5243 23/819 10.9.54.

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2. No 1 is a mid-C19 link between Wall Cottage and Nos 2 and 3, probably by George Devey. 2 storeys, 2 windows under gable. Brick and tile-hung front. Nos 2 and 3 are C16 restored, with plaster-filled vertical timbering. High pitched tiled roofs. No 3 has old chimney stack, projecting at West end. No 2 has red brick ground floor. Both have oversailing 1st floor behind. No 2 has restored door under bracketed hood and the framing above is a C19 restoration.

Wall Cottage, Nos 1 to 3 (consec), the Archway, the Old Guildhouse and the Post Office and Retaining Wall form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5276543831

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446491
Legacy System:
LBS

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