Listed Building: TAYLOUR HOUSE (1085940)
Grade | II* |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 771, 12, 412 |
Date assigned | 10 September 1954 |
Date last amended |
Description
EDENBRIDGE EDENBRIDGE 1. 5280 High Street (East Side) No 69 (Taylour House) TQ 4446 12/412 10.9.54. II* 2. C15 timber framed house much altered externally. Now front of 2 tall storeys, 2 windows. Double span building has old tiled roofs hipped at left, C17 chimney stack of 3 linked shafts on ridge. Tile hung 1st floor, painted brick ground floor, rendered plinth. 1st floor modern mullioned and transomed windows with diamond leading. At back exposed framing, partly restored, and plaster filling. Inside much visible timber with moulded beams and old doors and frames. Upstairs room has 2 well-preserved painted walls of early C17, one with scrolls of foliage another with scene of Judith and Holopernes and arms of James I. Also early C17 staircase with flat, urn-shaped balusters. Arms in spandrel over doorway are of Sir William Taylour, Lord Mayor of London in 1469, whose house this was.
Listing NGR: TQ4441446027
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 4440 4611 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ44NW |
Civil Parish | EDENBRIDGE, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Aug 25 2010 1:39PM