Listed Building record TQ 85 SE 258 - R B HOUSE AND HAND RAILS ATTACHED

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1832

Location

Grid reference TQ 8984 5221 (point)
Map sheet TQ85SE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LENHAM THE SQUARE TQ 8952 (west side)
10/230 R.B.House and hand- rails attached 26.4.68. (Formerly listed as Stanfield House) GV II
House, now offices. Early C19. Described in former List as C15 building refaced in early C19. Rendered brick with plain tile roof. Double depth. 3 storeys and semi-basement on plinth, with plain wood eaves cornice. Front and rear sections have separate hipped roofs. Large red brick ridge stack to right of centre of each section and very small brick stack to left end between sections. Regular 3-window front of recessed glazing-bar sashes, ground and first floor windows with single Soanian line over. Reeded architrave with semi-circular head, up 4 steps withiron hand-rails, between left and central windows, containing recessed door of 6 fielded panels with semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Blocked door between left window and left end. Interior: C19 features. Some walls said to be studded.
Listing NGR: TQ8983952208

The house was used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital by VAD Kent/134 from May 1915 -December 1918, with 35 beds.


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

Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • --- Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  • --- Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War.

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Record last edited

Aug 2 2016 11:12AM