Listed Building record TQ 75 SE 293 - WIERTON GRANGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1896 to 1896

Location

Grid reference TQ 7840 5025 (point)
Map sheet TQ75SE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA WIERTON HILL TQ 75 SE (East side)
1/64 Wierton Grange
II
House. 1896, after the style of R. Norman Shaw. Ground floor red brick in English bond, first floor hung with fishscale tiles. Occasional stone dressings to ground floor and chimney stacks. Plain tile roof. L-plan; north-facing main range with wing running north from east end. 2 storeys and attics. South (garden) front: steeply-pitched gabled roof. Slightly projecting gable end stacks and central brick ridge stack. Cupolaed look-out to west of centre. 5 dormers with alternating segmental and triangular pediments, and leaded cross windows. 2 symmetrically-placed 2-storey flat-roofed canted bays with moulded wooden cornices and leaded wooden mullioned and transomed windows. Leaded 12- light wooden mullioned and transomed window between them to centre. Ground- floor recessed to centre behind 2 engaged and one central column. Half-glazed door within recess. North (entrance) front: broad porch between centre and west end, with ashlared ground floor, tile-hung first floor, and paired Doric columns flanking recess containing front door. 2 tall narrow windows lighting hall to east of porch. Wing: in same materials as main range, with 2 broad tile-hung eaves dormers, and rainwater-head dated 1896. Interior: not inspected, but said to contain galleried 2-storey hall and fine joinery.
Listing NGR: TQ7840450256


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