Listed Building: GREAT MORETONS AND MORETONS AND MORETONS END (1272553)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 771, 36, 1384
Date assigned 10 September 1954
Date last amended

Description

1. 5280 WESTERHAM WESTERHAM High Street (North Side) - Moretons. 10.9.54. Great Moretons. 10.9.54. Moretons End. TQ 4453 36/1384 II 2. Originally one house, though built at different periods. Now divided into 3. Moretons. 2-storey, 2 window, mid-late C19 building. 2 parallel high pitched slated roofs with stone coped Dutch gable ends to road. Subsidiary half-gable at left over entrance. Red brick with blue headers. Stone quoins and high plinth. Casement windows, ground floor long ones with stone alternating block jambs and flat arches with raised keystones. Modern Georgian entrance. Red brick wall with dentil cornice links with Great Moretons. Early C18, 2 storeys, 5 windows. Inside may be older. High pitched tiled roof half-hipped at left, with 3 pedimented dormers, compound ridge stack and right end chimney. Heavy moulded wood parapet cornice rests on end pilasters of blue headers with red brick quoins. Front wall also of headers, mostly blue, with red brick dressings including 1st floor band and flat, gauged window arches. C19 sash windows with vertical bars. At right a C19 2-storey canted bay. Central prostyle Roman Doric porch, with mutule cornice, now enclosed. Rear elevation shows complete parallel span, similar material but C19 appearance. Moretons End on left return from Great Moretons. Early C19 half- octagonal bay under low pitched, hipped, slated roof. Wall of blue headers with red brick dressings. 1st floor one centre sash window with glazing bars. Right window blocked. Ground floor 2 replaced sash windows with bars, and door at left. Left end covered by linking wall to modern 2-storey, 2-window projecting extension of red brick with re-used C19 casements. Listing NGR: TQ4414753704

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 4414 5370 (point)
Map sheet TQ45SW
Civil Parish WESTERHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 10:25AM