Stables and Walled Garden to Mersham-le-hatch
STABLES AND WALLED GARDEN TO MERSHAM-LE-HATCH, HYTHE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299770
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stables and Walled Garden to Mersham-le-hatch
- Statutory Address:
- STABLES AND WALLED GARDEN TO MERSHAM-LE-HATCH, HYTHE ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-10-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/08999/18
- Rights:
- © Mr Malcolm Gilbert. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299770
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stables and Walled Garden to Mersham-le-hatch
- Statutory Address 1:
- STABLES AND WALLED GARDEN TO MERSHAM-LE-HATCH, HYTHE 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:
- STABLES AND WALLED GARDEN TO MERSHAM-LE-HATCH, HYTHE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Smeeth
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 06093 40237
Details
TR 04 SE SMEETH HYTHE ROAD (north side) 1/122 Stables and walled garden to Mersham-Le- Hatch GV II Stables, now classrooms and walled garden. Dated 1825 for Sir Edward Knatchbull. Main stable courtyard of ragstone with brick dressings and of brick with plain tiled roof. Entry tower with plinth and cornice to pyramidal roof, with Arms cartouche over moulded semi- circular carriage arch on imposts, with cornice keystone with carved horse's head, and flanked by ornately scrolled and enriched cast iron lamp brackets with curved twisted stems. The horse head keystone is repeated on interior face. Boarded doors and casement windows along outer wall. Inner courtyard with 2 storey range opposite entrance, of brick, with stacks at end left and end right, with central tented cupola with clock dated 1825. Glazing bar sashes on 1st floor, and open glass-roofed pentice on ground floor, which is almost entirely faced with row of carriage doors. Single storey ragstone wings with glazing bar sashes and boarded doors. The whole complex used as classrooms and workshops for the Caldecott Community School which, occupies Mersham-Le-Hatch. To the east of the stables are walled courtyards with single storey outbuildings, some of earlier origin than the stable ranges and a large walled garden to the south of red brick, about 100 yards by 100 (not a true rectangle).
Listing NGR: TR0738339508
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181708
- 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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