Watermill House
WATERMILL HOUSE, MILL STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281500
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Watermill House
- Statutory Address:
- WATERMILL HOUSE, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281500
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Watermill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERMILL HOUSE, MILL STREET
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:
- WATERMILL HOUSE, MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79799 30517
Details
BENENDEN TQ73SE MILL STREET 1350-0/2/67 (South East side) 09/06/52 Watermill House II* House. Late C15 Wealden hall-house restored in C20. Timber-framed building, close-studded with plaster infilling on mainly stone plinth but red brick to left hand side. 2 storeys 4 windows. The 1st floor of the end window bays oversails on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets. The eaves between oversail on curved braces and a bracket. 2 storeys, 4 windows. C20 restored mullions including tall hall window. Southern ground floor window consists of 2 wide lights with four-centred heads. Original four-centred arched doorcase with quatrefoil carving to spandrels and plank door. South front also has jetty to 1st floor. Interior has dais beam, inserted C16 ceiling to former open hall and open fireplace with wooden bressumer. Octagonal crown post. (West Kent and the Weald: N. Pevsner B.o.E.: P. 148).
Listing NGR: TQ7980230515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170173
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 148
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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