Listed Building record TQ 75 NE 738 - BOXLEY HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1968. Country house built in the late 17th century, altered in the 19th century. It became a hotel in 1985.

Location

Grid reference TQ 7744 5925 (point)
Map sheet TQ75NE
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish BOXLEY, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 75 NE BOXLEY THE STREET (east side)
5/105 Boxley House 26.4.68
G.V. II
House, now Hotel. C17 core with C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Brick facades with plain tile roof. Garden front: early C18 facade to C17 core. Red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. 2 storeys, attics and cellar, on brick plinth with shallow stone base. Rubbed brick plat band above first-floor windows. Plain, stone-coped parapet roof hipped at left end. C17 brick ridge stack of 6 octagonal flues with moulded tops and bases on a square platform, off-centre to left. 4 dormers with triangular pediments. 4 glazing bar sashes and 2 two storey bay windows; one glazing bar sash at right end and one beneath stack with rubbed brick voussoirs, altered later in C18. Slightly later C18 addition at left end matching rest of facade with 1 further dormer and 2 glazing-bar sashes. C19 rendered, canted bays added either side of stack in place of former sashes, with plinth, plat band above first-floor windows and stone-coped parapet. 3 glazing-bar sashes in each bay. Bays, and area between them, incorporating sash window beneath stack, painted white. Door case between bays with fluted pil- asters carrying entablature with triglyphs and semi-circular pediment, up 5 steps. C19 addition at right end: 2 storeys and basement on plinth with plat band above first-floor windows, and stone-coped parapet. Roof hipped to right. One glazing-bar sash on each floor with rubbed brick voussoirs. Right return elevation to match garden front, 2 C19 periods, painted brick, regular 6-window front. C20 porch. Elevation of recessed left rear wing: Early C18 red brick, altered in C20. One narrow first-floor window with elaborately carved rubbed red-brick voussoirs. Rear block now largely C19. Interior: fragments of C17 house, possibly of courtyard plan; first- floor beams.
Listing NGR: TQ7733258920 (1)

Description from record TQ 75 NE 251 :
Listed building : no additional information available

Historic England archive material:BF008658 BOXLEY HOUSE, BOXLEY


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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  • <1>XY Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #28035 Listed Building, ]

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Record last edited

Nov 2 2023 2:37PM