Scotney Castle With Courtyards and Garden Terrace
SCOTNEY CASTLE WITH COURTYARDS AND GARDEN TERRACE, SCOTNEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1336699
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Scotney Castle With Courtyards and Garden Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- SCOTNEY CASTLE WITH COURTYARDS AND GARDEN TERRACE, SCOTNEY
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1336699
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Scotney Castle With Courtyards and Garden Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCOTNEY CASTLE WITH COURTYARDS AND GARDEN TERRACE, SCOTNEY
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:
- SCOTNEY CASTLE WITH COURTYARDS AND GARDEN TERRACE, SCOTNEY
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 68734 35373
Details
LAMBERHURST SCOTNEY TQ 63 NE 3/222 Scotney Castle with courtyards and garden 20.10.54 terrace GV I
House. Designed 1835 and executed 1837-1844. Anthony Salvin, architect, for Edward Hussey. Sandstone (the house overlooks its own quarry) and slate roof. Tudor style notable for its assured, Picturesque handling, relying on proportion and balance rather than forced symmetry. Multi-gabled composition with battlemented tower and mullioned windows and bays throughout. Garden terrace to east, enclosed by balustraded walls, and kitchen and stable courtyards attached to north, with arched gateways and the latter with clock tower. Interior: largely decorated in Jacobean style, with much imported C17 panelling, woodwork fireplaces etc., mostly Flemish in origin. The house was home to the architectural writer Christopher Hussey, and is fully described by him in Country Life, Sept. 6th. and 13th., 1956 and remains unaltered externally and internally.
Listing NGR: TQ6873435373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170059
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 6 September, (1956)
Country Life in September 13, (1956)
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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