Listed Building record TR 04 SW 316 - 1-5 Barrowhill Place

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1845 to 1850

Location

Grid reference TR 0054 4304 (point)
Map sheet TR04SW
District ASHFORD, KENT
Civil Parish ASHFORD, ASHFORD, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 04 SW ASHFORD BARROWHILL PLACE
750/3/186A Numbers 1 to 5 (Consecutive)
04.06.1976
GV II
Terrace of houses. Circa 1845-50, probably to house employees of the railway company. 3 storeys and basement red brick with a vertical strip painted between the houses from the 1st to 2nd floor to represent pilasters. Cornice and parapet. Painted stringcourse above the ground floor, 2 sashes to each with glazing bars intact. Round-headed windows on the ground floor. Round-headed doorways with semi-circular fanlights and doors of 5 fielded panels. No 1 faces east and has a stuccoed porch of solid type with twin Doric pilasters and similar doorway to the other houses, the rear elevation has a slate roof with a series of hips. The land was owned by a William Betts, probably a relative of Edward Betts one of the contractors for the building of the railway and the census retaurns for 1851 show a large number of the occupants of the houses to have been employed by the railway company.Nos 1-8 Barrowhill Place form a group.
Listing NGR: TR0054443047


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

May 25 2010 10:56AM