Listed Building: OAKFIELD HOUSE AND WELLINGTON HOUSE (1338726)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1351, 16, 339
Date assigned 20 June 1967
Date last amended

Description

HAWKHURST 1351/16/339 HIGH STREET 20-JUN-67 (North side) Oakfield House and Wellington House (Formerly listed as: HIGH STREET Oakfield) GV II House, now subdivided. Early C19. Rendered, with stock brick return elevations. Slate roof. Three storeys, the ground floor rusticated horizontally, with plat band, cornice to top storey,and paired modillion eaves brackets to hipped roof with stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 3 half-sized glazing bar sashes on 2nd floor, 3 full sized on first floor in moulded surrounds with cornices on brackets, and 2 segmentally headed tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor. Central glazed double doors with sidelights and rectangular fanlight in porch with coupled Ionic columns and cornice. Recessed 2 storey hipped wing to left with tripartite glazing bar sashes on each floor, and single storey wing to right with tripartite glazing bar sash with segmental head, and to right return. Built for Henry Winchester, Lord Mayor of London 1834/5, entertaining there, amongst others, the Duke of Wellington. Listing NGR: TQ7570930775

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7570 3077 (point)
Map sheet TQ73SE
Civil Parish HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM