Leybourne Castle
Leybourne Castle, Castle Way, West Malling
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363097
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Leybourne Castle
- Statutory Address:
- Leybourne Castle, Castle Way, West Malling
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363097
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Leybourne Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- Leybourne Castle, Castle Way, West Malling
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:
- Leybourne Castle, Castle Way, West Malling
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leybourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68866 58910
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 August 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 65 NE
7/200
LEYBOURNE CP
CASTLE WAY
Leybourne Castle
(Formerly listed as Leybourne Castle MALLING ROAD (west side))
25.8.59
II*
Castle gateway ruin, outbuilding and house. Early C14 and 1925-26. House related to ruins by Walter Godfrey in free Cotswold vernacular style.
GATEWAY: random rubble stone. Two broad semicircular bastions with a triple-chamfered depressed arch between with beginnings of opening area. Loop-holes on ground floor with widish square windows above. Portcullis groove and beginnings of rib-vault oriel cut in archway. Internally, evidence of upper floors, and vaulted cupboard in addition to west bastion. Low wall, probably reconstructed in right-angle to west and south, connecting with two-storey random rubble gabled outbuilding, probably also C14 with arched doorway in north gable end and two-light window arch.
HOUSE: attached to east bastion and stretching to south east front: Random rubble with stone tiled roof, and hipped gable to left arch shallow projection. Ridge stack to left and stack to right behind ridge, both very tall. Two storeys; three bays, irregular with shallow, parapeted, canted bays at each end. Large ten-light window on ground floor, off-centre to right with five-light window above. Large projecting gabled chimney breast to left with door-
way, further to left. South side: hipped to right with centre valley and gabled end to left with tall projecting stack. Two storeys; two windows to right, twelve-light window below. North front: two storeys; irregular fenestration of five windows on first floor, and one for right on ground floor with round-arched doorway to left with stone surround and brick arch between. Interior: ground floor rooms panelled. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: TQ6858258935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179376
- 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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