Listed Building record TQ 75 SE 235 - WOODLAWN

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1832

Location

Grid reference TQ 7553 5269 (point)
Map sheet TQ75SE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish LOOSE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LOOSE VALLEY TQ 7552 LOOSE 6/189 Woodlawn (formerly listed as Woodlawn 23.5.67 Park) II House. Early C19. Clad with channelled render. Slate roof. Irregular plan. 2 storeys and cellar on rendered stone plinth. South (entrance) front: right end bay projects forwards. Front room of left end bay extends further than rest of house. Moulded rendered plat band above ground and first-floor windows. Plain lead-capped parapet. Rendered ridge stack towards left end. Regular 4-window front of 3 recessed 12-pane sashes, and one tripartite sash to right projection, all with Venetian shutters. Intertwined initials to ground-floor shutters. Raised band above plat band over each ground-floor window. Rendered single-storey porch in angle between main range and right projection, with chamfered corners, moulded cornice, and plain parapet stepped up over doorway. Half-glazed double doors with side and top lights and segmental head. East return elevation (garden front): plat band and parapet continued from front elevation. 2 rendered stacks flanking central break. Regular 5-window front of 12-pane sashes with thin glazing bars and painted splayed voussoirs; 3 closely-spaced to shallow central break and one, more broadly spaced, towards each end. Broad single-storey ground-floor bow across break, with three 15-pane sashes with blind boxes. Incised border to bow and incised panels to parapet of bow. 2 moulded semi-circular stone steps to central window. Single-storey service rooms infilling north-west corner of house. Interior: entrance hall and ground-floor corridor tessellated in blue, brown and peach. Plaster cornice with paterae. Consoled arch to each end of corridor. Semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars behind north end arch, lighting corridor from north-east room. Elliptical geometrical staircase towards centre of west side, with stick balusters, carved cheeks and wreathed inlaid handrail. Panelled doors off ground-floor corridor. Enriched plaster cornices to ground-floor rooms and plainer cornices to first floor. Marble fireplaces. Service stairs.
Listing NGR: TQ7553952698


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM