ROYDON HALL

ROYDON HALL, ROYDON HALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363037
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: ROYDON HALL
Statutory Address:: ROYDON HALL, ROYDON HALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1363037
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: ROYDON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ROYDON HALL, ROYDON HALL ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYDON HALL, ROYDON HALL ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:: East Peckham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 66581 51711

Details

TQ 65 SE EAST PECKHAM ROYDON HALL ROAD (east side)

2/58 Roydon Hall

1.8.52

- II*

Country House.Built, according to inscription over entrance doorway, in 1535. Completely sashed c.1680. Heavily remodelled, especially east and south fronts c.1870 by Habershon. Red brick with some stone dressings, slate roofs. North (entrance) front: 2 storeys with crow-stepped gables to right, added in C19 remodelling. 2 large chimney-breasts to right with stove-topped brick stacks. Irregular fenestration of C19 casements in transom and mullion surrounds. Semi-basement block with area to right. 2½ storey porch slightly off-centre to left. Stone on ground floor with round-headed arch flanked by Tuscan half- columns on high basts carrying an entablature. Dateable to c.1600 by strapwork decoration. Transom and mullion windows on both floors above. Entrance range in front of north facade forming small square court. Low, three-dimensional four-centred arch in centre, framed each side by a triangular and polygonal projection, where rooms had once been, with octagonal turrets at each, joined to the house by two eight foot high walls. East front: Almost wholly Victorian. 2 Victorian dormers. 2 storeys. Chimney breast to left with inset ground floor window and central 2-storey canted bay. South front: 2 storeys, irregu- lar fenestration of c.1870 multi-light transom and mullion windows. 3 gables to left, 2-storey canted bay to right. Victorian porch offset to right of centre, with neo-Perpendicular pointed arch window with tracery over. West front: Retains original character to greater extent. Brick laid in English bond.. 2 storeys, rising to 3 with 3 c.1870 crow-stepped gables. String- course below gables on moulded brick corbel - table of trefoil arches. 2 sheer chimney breasts, cutting up through gables, with original stove-topped stacks. Interior: South East Room. Jacobean panelling. South Room: Chapel screen, 6 lights and central door (not original). Heavily moulded door surround. North east room. Walnut panelling, c.1680. Blue Room: Lavish C19 rococo revi- val decoration, including cornice and ceiling, pier-glasses, overdoor, bressum- mer to bay window and chimney-piece. Original central courtyard roofed and top-lit to form main staircase, c.1870. Most of the rooms have c.1870 neo- Jacobean plaster ceilings. See Country Life, LXXXVII, 198.

Listing NGR: TQ6658151711

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Legacy System number:: 178831
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 87, (), 198

Legal

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