Listed Building record TR 04 SW 316 - 1-5 Barrowhill Place
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Location
Grid reference | TR 0054 4304 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR04SW |
District | ASHFORD, KENT |
Civil Parish | ASHFORD, ASHFORD, KENT |
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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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
May 25 2010 10:56AM