THE LADY'S WELL, SPRING HEAD AT 721 342

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338701
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: THE LADY'S WELL, SPRING HEAD AT 721 342
Statutory Address:: THE LADY'S WELL, SPRING HEAD AT 721 342

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338701
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: THE LADY'S WELL, SPRING HEAD AT 721 342
Statutory Address 1:: THE LADY'S WELL, SPRING HEAD AT 721 342

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE LADY'S WELL, SPRING HEAD AT 721 342

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Goudhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 72134 34149

Details

GOUDHURST BEDGEBURY PARK TQ 73 SW 9/82 'The Lady's Well', spring head at 721 342 - II Spring head and memorial. C18 or early C19. Sandstone ashlar with heavy slate roof. Paved surround to small square building, with 3 open arched sides, the moulded and keyed arches on imposts carried across the piers. Gabled roof with raised ridge. The spring rises up onto a platform within the building, and into a semi-circular basin at its foot. Inscription in gable on attached plaque record- ing the creation of the surrounding water garden in 1964 as memorial to Eileen Bickerstaff, Headmistress of Bedgebury School.

Listing NGR: TQ7209234380

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 169432
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.