Grovehurst
GROVEHURST, GROVEHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338776
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Grovehurst
- Statutory Address:
- GROVEHURST, GROVEHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338776
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Grovehurst
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROVEHURST, GROVEHURST 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:
- GROVEHURST, GROVEHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsmonden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 71605 40722
Details
HORSMONDEN GROVEHURST ROAD TQ 7040-7140 (east side) 7/43 Grovehurst 20.10.54 GV II*
House. C15 altered and extended C16 and c.1641. Timber framed and rendered with some exposed framing with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with cross wing origin. Two storeys on plinth with jettied cross wing projecting at right with close studded frame on first floor. Left hand section a regular composition of 2 gables jettied at first floor and gable levels, with moulded bresummers, bargeboards and pendants, with central 2 storey stair projection, also with moulded bargeboards and pendant: gable dated I A 1641 (refering to John Austen). Stack clusters to centre left (behind the porch) and to right in the cross wing. Three light leaded wooden casement to left on first floor with 4 light mullioned and transomed window to porch, central 5 light transomed oriel and 3 light transomed window to right; fenestration pattern repeated on ground floor. The porch and cross wing both with lean-to added porches on left flanks, with turned baluster side screens and rib and stud doors. Catslide outshot to right return, and left return with exposed small panel frame with arched door opening, now blocked, to upper left. Rear with catslide outshot and single storey extensions with moulded stack. Interior: (recorded) crown post roofs in both main range and cross wing. Late C16 panelling and carved overmantel in one room and mid C17 staircase in stair projection (see B.O.E. Kent,I, p.335, Igglesden, 17, pp.52-4). A manorial seat giving its name to the Grofhurst family (brasses in Horsmonden church); by C17 part of the Austen family's extensive possessions in Horsmonden.
Listing NGR: TQ7160540722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980)
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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