Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner
BOUNDARY WALL TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL ALONG THE PENSHURST ROAD AND MARLPIT CORNER, MARLPIT CORNER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277666
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner
- Statutory Address:
- BOUNDARY WALL TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL ALONG THE PENSHURST ROAD AND MARLPIT CORNER, MARLPIT CORNER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277666
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOUNDARY WALL TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL ALONG THE PENSHURST ROAD AND MARLPIT CORNER, MARLPIT CORNER
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:
- BOUNDARY WALL TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL ALONG THE PENSHURST ROAD AND MARLPIT CORNER, MARLPIT CORNER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bidborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53511 43110
Details
TQ 54 SW BIDBOROUGH MARLPIT CORNER
3/25 Boundary wall to Swaylands School along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner
GV II
Boundary wall. Circa 1880s. Roughly-dressed sandstone brought to course flanking the entrance, the other walls brick with a dentil moulding below the coping.
Plan: The walls extend along the Penshurst Road and round Marlpit corner to the east, curving inwards at the entrance to the drive to Swaylands School and the entrance to the stable yard.
Exterior: At the main entrance the sandstone walls are low with stone coping, crowned with iron railings with a barleysugar top rail on standards with wrought iron scrolls. Squat octagonal gate piers with 2-tier pyramidal coping. The entrance walls ramp up to taller brick walls which curve inward at the stable yard entrance to the west where there is a pair of C19 timber gates.
Group value with Swaylands School, separately listed in Penshurst parish.
Listing NGR: TQ5561443712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430785
- 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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