STABLES AND WALLED GARDEN TO MERSHAM-LE-HATCH

STABLES AND WALLED GARDEN TO MERSHAM-LE-HATCH, HYTHE ROAD

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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:: 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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 181708
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.