Listed Building: LEYBOURNE GRANGE (1363096)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1347, 7, 197 |
Date assigned | 25 February 1987 |
Date last amended |
Description
LEYBOURNE CP BIRLING ROAD TQ 65 NE (west side) 7/197 - Leybourne Grange
- II
Country house, now administration building for Leybourne Mental Hospital. Circa 1850 by S W Dawkes. Stuccoed facades with raised quoins to central and end pro- jections on 1st 2-storey and panelled pilasters to attic storey. String course between ground and 1st floors, cornice between 1st and attic floors and parapet with cornice moulding over attic. Slate hipped roofs, masked by parapet with various stacks, 2 of which stand in centre of parapet of end projections and are arched on line of parapet. Central projection crowned by pediment broken by open pedimented medicine framing coat-of-arms. 2 storeys and attic, the attic forming an almost complete 3rd storey. Regular 11-bay facade, though the central projection is divided into 2 bays on attic storey with a single triple-arched window below. Pair of windows flanking central entrance. Glazing bar sashes throughout except sashes on ground floor and sashes without glazing bars in central lst floor window and in 2 windows flanking main door. Ground and 1st floor windows have segment-headed eared surrounds with cill brackets. Central ground floor ponte-conchere with balustrade over 6 columns, paired at each end and with single columns dividing the wider central opening and the narrower flanking openings. Doubled half-glazed doors behind, with overlight.
Listing NGR: TQ6858258935
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 6789 5935 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ65NE |
Civil Parish | LEYBOURNE, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 11:31AM