Birling Place
BIRLING PLACE, STANGATE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363098
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Birling Place
- Statutory Address:
- BIRLING PLACE, STANGATE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363098
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Birling Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRLING PLACE, STANGATE 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:
- BIRLING PLACE, STANGATE 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:
- Birling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67382 61568
Details
BIRLING CP STANGATE ROAD TQ 66 SE (west side) 3/110 Birling Place -
- II
House. Possibly C15, with C16. C18 and C19 alterations. South front: Red and blue brick with hipped plain tiled roofs and 2 valleys either side of centre. 2 stacks, one at right side, one in left valley. 2 storeys; 5 bays, slightly recessed in centre. 4-window lst floor, glazing bar sashes, margin lights on ground floor. Central 6-panelled door with radiating fanlight over. West front: Red brick, 6-light stone mullion window with 4-centred arch heads on 1st floor to left. Odd remains of roll-moulding at cornice level to right of west side. North front: Red brick, rendered on 1st floor to right. Projecting hipped gabled wing to left. 2 storeys to right, with irregular fenestration of 3 windows. 2 storeys and attic to left, with 2 dormers and fenestration of 3 windows on 1st floor, and 2 windows on ground floor. Casements, except glazing bar sashes on lst floor of projecting wing. Main entrance to left of projecting wing with projecting hipped weather porch and boarded door. Interior: long chamfered wooden bressumer to fireplace. Aisle posts of original timber-framed hall survive in dining room. C19 staircase with turned balusters. Roof over original hall is a simple rafter-type roof with no purlins or trusses. The site of the house is the earliest known property of the Nevill family in England. The original timber-framed block probably originally took the form of an aisled hall with a uniform scantling roof, on the earliest of timber-framed hall-house types in south-east England.
Listing NGR: TQ6738261568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179283
- 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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