Listed Building: QUADRANT WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO TONGSWOOD DRIVE (1338758)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1351, 17, 412
Date assigned 22 June 1989
Date last amended

Description

HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (north side) 17/412 Quadrant walls and gte piers to Tongswood Drive GV II Quadrant walls and gate piers. Early C20. Red brick and ashlar details with cast or wrought iron railings. Free Baroque revival style. Stone, panelled gatepiers with modillion cornice to ball-finial (ball lost on right hand pier), with brick quadrant walls sweeping in concave curves to left and to right, the cornice depressed in semi-circular sweeps filled with lengths of spear-head rails with scrolled centre panels, with pedimented central feature. The quadrants terminated by lower stone piers, the walls ramped down and extending some 10 yards to right, and about 40 yards to left. The central iron carriage gate is missing. Formerly the main entrance to the Tongswood estate. Listing NGR: TQ7746030185

External Links (0)

Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7745 3018 (point)
Map sheet TQ73SE
Civil Parish HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM