Listed Building: TAYLOUR HOUSE (1085940)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 4440 4611 (point)
Map sheet TQ44NW
Civil Parish EDENBRIDGE, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Record last edited

Aug 25 2010 1:39PM