Manor House
MANOR HOUSE, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1336304
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, LOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1336304
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, LOWER 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:
- MANOR HOUSE, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leeds
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 82330 53165
Details
LEEDS LOWER STREET TQ 8253 (east side)
8/94 Manor House 20.10.52. GV II* House. C15 with C19 alterations. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Left end bay on ground floor roughly coursed galletted stone. Plain tile roof. Wealden with open hall of 2 unequal bays, storeyed bay to right and formerly also to left. 2 storeys and attics on plinth. Right end bay jettied, jetty returned along right end. on plain dragon post. Rebated central hall post. Moulded flying wall-plate. Hollow-chamfered bracket from jettied first floor to right end of flying wall-plate, and solid bracket beneath central tie. Close-studded, with brattished fillet half way up first floor of right end bay, returning along right end elevation. Roof hipped to right with gablet. Red brick stack in front slope of roof to left end (in smaller bay of hall). 2 rear dormers. Irregular fenestration of leaded casements; one 4-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right end bay and one C15 2-storey rectangular bay window to right bay of hall, with moulded wood jambs, single quatrefoil light to each side in solid side-pieces towards bottom,and curved brackets under, now containing one 3-light casement on each floor. Small blocked single-light opening on first floor to left end of hall with cusped ogee head and mouchettes to spandrels. One 2-light C15 stone window to ground floor of right end bay, with hollow-chamfered mullion, cusped lights, and moulded hood-mould. Right end elevation has 2 small moulded pointed-arched lights and 2-light casement to first floor, and small blocked rectangular window with chamfered stone jambs to ground floor. Ribbed door to left end of hall under shallow flat hood. C19 timber-framed lean-to to left. Interior not inspected. Said to have rich internal detailing. (J. Parkin , Vanishing Houses of Kent, Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 78, 1963).
Listing NGR: TQ8232253156
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeologia Cantiana in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 78, (1963)
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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