Listed Building: GATE PIERS AND PAIR OF GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO MOUNTAINS (1248299)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1694, 5, 179
Date assigned 19 February 1990
Date last amended

Description

HILDENBOROUGH NOBLE TREE ROAD (south side) TQ 54 NE 5/179 Gate piers and pair of gates - at the entrance to Mountains GV II Gate piers, gates and fencing. Probably 1865, contemporary with Mountains and probably designed by G. Somers Clarke for the Johnson family. Sandstone gate piers; iron gates. High Victorian Gothic. Gate piers square on plan at the base the upper sections octagonal; pair of iron gates; 2 sections of outward curving fencing to left and right. Elaborate High Victorian gate piers, the upper parts battered, one batter with a brattished cornice. Each pier is crowned with a Gothic style iron lamp bracket with ornamental detail. The gates have curved diagonal braces, spike finials, a solid middle rail with pierced ornament and a standard ornamented with wrought iron foliage. A well-preserved example of a High Victorian gateway. Listing NGR: TQ5607348707

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5619 4887 (point)
Map sheet TQ54NE
Civil Parish HILDENBOROUGH, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM