CONGHURST, WITH WALLS AND OUTHOUSES ATTACHED

CONGHURST, WITH WALLS AND OUTHOUSES ATTACHED, CONGHURST LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325969
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: CONGHURST, WITH WALLS AND OUTHOUSES ATTACHED
Statutory Address:: CONGHURST, WITH WALLS AND OUTHOUSES ATTACHED, CONGHURST LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1325969
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: CONGHURST, WITH WALLS AND OUTHOUSES ATTACHED
Statutory Address 1:: CONGHURST, WITH WALLS AND OUTHOUSES ATTACHED, CONGHURST LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CONGHURST, WITH WALLS AND OUTHOUSES ATTACHED, CONGHURST LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Hawkhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 76993 28208

Details

HAWKHURST CONGHURST LANE TQ 72 NE (east side) 12/295 Conghurst, with walls and outhouses attached GV II House. Late C16, refronted c.1800 and extended c.1900. Timber framed and tile hung on first floor with sandstone on ground floor, and with lathe and plaster to return elevations, with plain tiled roof, the early C19 and C20 wing rendered with slate roof. Garden front (C19): 2 storeys on plinth with plat band and cornice with stack clusters to rear left and to rear right. Four glazing bar sashes on first floor, 2 sashes to right and 2 cross-windows to left on ground floor: end left bay an addition of c.1900, end right bay mid C19. Central doubled half- glazed doors with rectangular fanlight in projecting sandstone porch, with Doric pilasters and cornice. Rear wings of 2 storeys and attic half-hipped, with irreg- ular wooden and metal casements. Present main entry by old rib and stud door replaced in flat roofed stone porch. Interior: c.1800 block with geometrical stair with stick balusters and wreathed handrail and simple marble fireplaces. Rear wing with stone inglenook, with side panel bearing arms cartouche of Scott and Congerhurst families, quartered and bearing date 1599. Hasted (vol VII) says Thomas Scott began rebuilding after 1533. The same principal room with moulded dais beam with dentilated egg and tongue and fluted enrichment, with parallel cross-passage beam with identical enrichment, with paired cambered headed doorways with fern leaf spandrels, filleted ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window reset to passage. Brick lined cellars. Projecting from the east of the house a stone-walled courtyard, walls about 8 feet high, some 20 by 30 yards, with boarded gates, and range of outhouses of stone, red brick and weather-boarding with plain tiled roof; 1 storey and attic, L-shaped plan with boarded doors and wooden case- ments. Beyond this, and stretching into Sandhurst Civil Parish a walled garden, walls about 8 feet high of red brick on sandstone, buttressed in places, of vary- ing heights, enclosing an area some 50 by 50 yards.

Listing NGR: TQ7699328208

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 169645
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1801)

Legal

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