Court Lodge Stable Yard and Walled Gardens
COURT LODGE STABLE YARD AND WALLED GARDENS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338588
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Court Lodge Stable Yard and Walled Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- COURT LODGE STABLE YARD AND WALLED GARDENS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338588
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Court Lodge Stable Yard and Walled Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT LODGE STABLE YARD AND WALLED GARDENS, CHURCH 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:
- COURT LODGE STABLE YARD AND WALLED GARDENS, CHURCH 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 68067 36598
Details
LAMBERHURST CHURCH ROAD TQ 63 NE (south side) 3/134 Court Lodge, stable yard and walled gardens 20.10.54 GV II
House, now flats, with courtyard and walled gardens. C17 core, enlarged c.1710, mid C18 and mid C19. Red brick, extended and cased with sandstone with plain tiled and slate roofs. The main elevation is that to south to the park, of three storeys with parapet and projecting two bay wings at left and at right with separately hipped roofs and with stacks to centre, to centre left and centre right. Regular fenestration of seven glazing bar sashes on each floor, some with glazing bars missing, all with keyed surrounds, those to centre on first and second floors round headed. Projecting from and returned to this front a low stone wall with regular buttress piers enclosing the garden terrace. Entrance front to left with three storeys of 5 bays, the ground floor built out and with canted porch with panelled doors. Right return (leading to the church) with irregular 5 bay frontage and with 2 storey canted bay, round headed stair window and half glazed door in pilastered surround with flat hood on brackets and semi-circular fanlight. Rear elevation of four separate blocks, only the right hand, towards the entrance front, of stone, the centre two with steeper pitched slate covered roofs. Adjoining this elevation is the stable yard with C18 coachhouse and outbuildings. Two walled gardens adjoin to the north east, with red brick walls about 6 feet in height, buttressed and ramped at various points and with boarded gates and attached sheds and outbuildings, enclosing areas of about 20 by 35 metres in the more southerly, and 40 by 40 metres in the northern enclosure. The house became the seat of the Morland family, Lords of the Manor of Lamberhurst, mid C18, and one of the principal seats in the parish (with Scotney and Bayham Abbey), Thomas Morland (d.1784) largely creating its present character. See Hasted, vol.V and Igglesden, vol.XVII.
Listing NGR: TQ6781936707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169971
- 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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