Listed Building: KIRBY HALL AND PYXOS (1239118)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 994, 3, 203
Date assigned 01 June 1967
Date last amended

Description

HORTON KIRBY THE STREET 1. 5280 (east side) Kirby Hall and TQ 56 NE 3/203 1.6.67 Pyxos II GV 2. C16 and C18. One house subdivided. Two parallel ranges. The north range, Kirby Hall is a timber-framed building. In the region of Elizabeth I it was sold by Sir Thomas Walsingham to Cuthbert Hacket - later Lord Mayor of London in 1626. The building was refaced about 1790 with buff mathematical tiles but preserving the overhang of its first floor on 4 slender columns. Brick parapet and wooden modillion cornice. Half-hipped slate roof. Three sash windows with glazing bars intact. Square porch with Doric columns and entablature fitted in below the overhang of the first floor. The south range, Pyxos, is an addition of the late C18 in the same materials but slightly altered later. Listing NGR: TQ5601568102

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5601 6811 (point)
Map sheet TQ56NE
Civil Parish HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Record last edited

May 31 2011 12:37PM