Listed Building: CLOCK HOUSE (FLATS NOS 1 AND 2) (1085820)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 989, 4, 9
Date assigned 01 August 1952
Date last amended

Description

1. 5274 DARENTH GREEN STREET GREEN ROAD (south-west side) Green Street Green Clock House (Flats Nos 1 and 2) TQ 57 SE 4/9 1.8.52 II 2. L-shaped building. The main or south-east wing has an C18 exterior to a C17 or earlier timber-framed building. Two storeys and attics, red brick. Tiled roof. Parapet and brick band above first floor windows. C17 or earlier chimneystacks. Three dormers. Six windows on the ground floor, 3 windows on the first floor. Glazing bars missing. Doorcase with pediment over on scrolled brackets. The north-east wing is a C19 addition of 2 storeys and 3 windows. To the rear of the north wing are the initials and dates IA1765, GS1765 and TP1765. The interior has good early C18 panelling with dado rail to hall and a room on the left has C17 mainscotting. Hasted's "History and Topographical Survey of Kent" (1778-1799) reveals that this house was at one time the home of Sir Edmund Davenport, Sheriff of Kent in 1694. Listing NGR: TQ5858670676

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5856 7068 (point)
Map sheet TQ57SE
Civil Parish DARENTH, DARTFORD, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 4:46PM