Brasted Place and Saxon Cross
BRASTED PLACE AND SAXON CROSS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1336432
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Brasted Place and Saxon Cross
- Statutory Address:
- BRASTED PLACE AND SAXON CROSS, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1336432
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Brasted Place and Saxon Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRASTED PLACE AND SAXON CROSS, HIGH 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:
- BRASTED PLACE AND SAXON CROSS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brasted
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 47668 54996
Details
1. 5280 BRASTED BRASTED High Street (South Side) Brasted Place and Saxon Cross TQ 4755 2/47 TQ 45 SE 45/47 10.9.54.
I
2. Circa 1784. Designed by Robert Adam for John Turton, physician to George III. Later additions. 5-bay Palladian villa of 2 storeys and basement. Slightly projecting centre section under pediment with dentilled cornice and round window. Ashlar sandstone masonry with patterned frieze to main entablature, double guilloche first floor band and freestone basement plinth. 9 steps to tetrastyle porch now glazed. Windows modern wood mullioned casements. 3-bay left return has C19 1-storey canted extension and balustraded terrace. Rear elevation has coupled corner Ionic pilasters and full height Ionic tetrastyle portico, opening to terrace. Inside some original plaster reliefs remain in hall and drawing room; and some ceiling and window enrichment. In situ 2 panels of Chinese wallpaper depicting scenes of everyday life, the gift of George III who received it from the Emporor of China. (Some removed to Kent Museum). In 1871 roof of house raised to mansard form and round dormer windows inserted. Also Western additions made, probably by Alfred Waterhouse, in French Renaissance style. A 3-window link of 2 storeys, attic and basement, but at different levels from main house, to taller, l-window pavilion. Slated mansard roofs, coursed rubble masonry. Dormers round in link and pedimented in pavilion. Sash and casement windows 3-light in pavilion. Western extremity of 1871 wing now concealed by plain, projecting modern extension; but on right return appears a tower of coursed rubble masonry with ashlar dressings. 3 storeys and arched basement with entrance, one window. Tall roof of reversed ogee shape, with fishscale slates octagonal drum, open wood arcade and slated spirelet with vane. 2 high chimneys, linked by stone arch, on roof of building behind. Date stone, with initialsWT at 2nd floor level. New chapel building extends behind. In te wall is mounted a Saxon cross, formerly set upon the rustic bridge to south-east. (Included in Sundridge parish).
Listing NGR: TQ4767155002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356912
- 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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