Holwood Mansion
HOLWOOD MANSION, WESTERHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1281097
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Holwood Mansion
- Statutory Address:
- HOLWOOD MANSION, WESTERHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1281097
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Holwood Mansion
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLWOOD MANSION, WESTERHAM ROAD
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:
- HOLWOOD MANSION, WESTERHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Bromley (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 42242 63549
Details
WESTERHAM ROAD, KESTON 1. 4407 Holwood Mansion TQ 46 SW 12/63 10.1.55. I
2. William Pitt the younger had a house here on this site. This was demolished and rebuilt by Decimus Burton for John Ward in 1825. Lord Cranworth, who was Lord Chancellor from 1852-8 and from 1865-6 also lived here. 2 storeys. 13 windows. White brick on a stone base with stone stringcourse cornice and parapet. The north-west or entrance front has a central projecting portion of 3 windows with a recessed porch in this having 2 fluted stone Greek Doric columns, a window on each side of the porch flanked by pilasters and a stone entablature with pediment over. At each end is a one-storey pavilion of 3 round-headed windows with a pediment over. At the north- east end is a service wing of 9 windows. The south-east or garden front has a central bow with 4 free-standing fluted Ionic columns and 2 Doric pilasters standing on a plinth of 6 semi-circular steps and rising the whole height of the house with a stone entablature above. The 3 window bays at each end are recessed. Their ground floor has 2 fluted Doric columns and 2 pilasters. To the south-east of the house is a very fine cedar tree at least as old as Pitt's time.
Listing NGR: TQ4224263549
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358600
- 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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