Listed Building record TQ 75 NW 242 - WALL AND GATES TO COURTYARD AT FRONT OF PRESTON HALL (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PRESTON HALL HOSPITAL)

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1830 to 1870

Location

Grid reference TQ 7280 5802 (point)
Map sheet TQ75NW
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
In the entry for AYLESFORD CP LONDON ROAD (north side) 12/67 Wall and gates to Court- yard at front of Preston Hall Hospital
The address shall be amended to read:
AYLESFORD CP LONDON ROAD (north side)
Wall and gates to Court- yard at front of Preston Hall (otherwise known as Preston Hall Hospital)
AYLESFORD LONDON ROAD (north side) 12/67 Wall and Gates to Courtyard at front of Preston Hall Hospital.
The address shall be amended to read -
TQ 7258 AYLESFORD LONDON ROAD (north side)
12/67 Wall and Gates to Courtyard at front of Preston Hall (otherwise known as Preston Hall Hospital).
TQ 7258 AYLESFORD CP LONDON ROAD (north side) 12/67 Wall and gates to court- yard at front of Preston - Hall Hospital
GV II
Wall and gates to entrance court of Preston Hall Hospital. Circa 1850 by John Thomas for Edward Betts. Dressed stone plinth, ashlar above. Wall on square plan but with quadrant curves in re-entered corners. Part wall, part balustrade with geometrical abstracted balusters and moulded standards. Entrance to forecourt in centre, flanked by gate-piers with stone bands, cornices and urns, flanked and supported by volute decoration on balustrade. Wall 4 feet high, standards 6 feet high, and piers 9 feet high.
Listing NGR: TQ7280358025


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