The Priory
THE PRIORY, PARSONAGE LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336697
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIORY, PARSONAGE LANE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336697
- Date first listed:
- 15-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIORY, PARSONAGE LANE
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:
- THE PRIORY, PARSONAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lamberhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67438 36718
Details
LAMBERHURST PARSONAGE LANE TQ 6636-6736 (north side) 8/203 The Priory 15-6-1988 GV II
House. Circa 1500, extended late C16, late C18 and late C19. Timber framed and part exposed with plaster infill, extensions tile hung on brick base. Plain tiled roofs. Complicated building sequence, originally a hall house, extended with lobby entry wing and with later C18 and C19 accretions. Principal front formed by C16 lobby entry range, of 2 storeys and attic on plinth with ornamental tile hanging on first floor and roof with stack to right with iron weather vane dated 1791 and arched recessed panelled stack to left and 3 hipped dormers. Four mullioned and transomed casements on first floor with four C20 copies on ground floor and two 4 light C20 casements and panelled door in C18 style doorcase with reeded pilasters and flat hood. Right return elevation with gable ends of front and C18 rear ranges with large C19 canted bays on ground floor. The earliest range is exposed to rear, of 2 storeys with close studded frame with jowled posts and steeply pitched hipped roof with gablets and tall late C16 stack. Interior: front range with staggered purlin roof (Rochester Diocesan records record re-roofing in 1728, when the property was 2 cottages). Largely early C18 features, including bolection moulded fireplace, turned baluster stair, panelled doors, cupboards and powder closet; reeded surrounds to upper fireplaces. Former Parsonage and probable pre-Reformation grange, renamed 1868 when passed to private hands.
Listing NGR: TQ6743836718
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170040
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 23-Jun-2026 at 07:53:36.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.