Staplehurst Lodge
STAPLEHURST LODGE, GOLFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336721
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Staplehurst Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- STAPLEHURST LODGE, GOLFORD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1336721
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Staplehurst Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAPLEHURST LODGE, GOLFORD ROAD
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:
- STAPLEHURST LODGE, GOLFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80615 34365
Details
In the entry for TQ 83 SW BENENDEN NEW POND ROAD (west side) 1350-0/3/73 Staplehurst Lodge GV II
The address shall be amended to read
TQ 83 SW BENENDEN GOLFORD ROAD (west side) 1350-0/3/73 Staplehurst Lodge GV II
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BENENDEN TQ83SW NEW POND ROAD 1350-0/3/73 (West side) Staplehurst Lodge GV II Lodge, formerly to Hempstead House now Benenden School. c.1868 by George Devey in Vernacular Revival style. Built of brick with stone dressings and timberframed gables with plastered infill. Tiled roof with 1 clustered brick chimneystack and right side external brick chimneystack on stone base. Front elevation has ground floor of red brick and projecting timberframed gable above, supported on elaborate brackets. Gable has one 4-light mullion, beneath is 6-light bay. Left side elevation has large projecting timberframed gable with eclectic framing and 4-light mullioned and transomed window supporting porch on 6 timber piers. Right side elevation has tile-hung gable with bands of fishscale tiles. (R.I.B.A. 1868).
Listing NGR: TQ8061534365
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170180
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Title:
Source Date: 1868
Author:
Publisher:
Surveyor:
Enclosure map of Harbridge
(1868)
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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