Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall

Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall, Wierton Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373870
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall
Statutory Address:
Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall, Wierton Road

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1373870
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall
Statutory Address 1:
Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall, Wierton Road

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall, Wierton Road

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

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
Boughton Monchelsea
National Grid Reference:
TQ 78092 49947

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/05/2020

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BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA
WIERTON ROAD (West side)
Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall

GV
II
Greenhouses and attached kitchen garden wall. Circa 1857 and 1899. Central glass-house, of two-storey height, almost square, and with canted corners to front, linked by low linear ranges of approximately twenty glazing bays each, to smaller end pavilions. Red brick plinth. Brick rear walls to linking sections are part of the garden walls.

Central pavilion has pyramidal roof, with narrow glazed upstand running from front to rear along ridge, with small bargeboards and iron finial to front. End pavilions gabled, with plain bargeboards and iron finials. Front of central pavilion, excluding corners, divided into seven vertical glazing bays, each subdivided into rectangular panes, with frieze of lunettes under eaves. Glazed central double doors. Four glazing bays to gable of each end pavilion, with larger panes towards base, small panes above, and lunette to each gable.

Interior retains fittings for regulation of ventilation, and stands for plants. Four Corinthian columns with cast iron spandrels and decorative bases, painted in blue and cream, to central pavilion. Attached brick garden walls form a rectangle mainly of Flemish bond brickwork, but Sussex bond to south, with moulded stone coping and brick buttresses at regular intervals. This varies in height between about ten feet to the sides and eight feet to the front. At the south east corner it abuts the carriage arch to the main house.

Listing NGR: TQ7809249947

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
174533
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.

Ordnance survey map of Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall

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