Listed Building record TQ 54 NE 188 - GATE PIERS AND PAIR OF GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO MOUNTAINS
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Location
Grid reference | TQ 5619 4887 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ54NE |
District | TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
Civil Parish | HILDENBOROUGH, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HILDENBOROUGH NOBLE TREE ROAD (south side) TQ 54 NE 5/179 Gate piers and pair of gates - at the entrance to Mountains
GV II
Gate piers, gates and fencing. Probably 1865, contemporary with Mountains and probably designed by G. Somers Clarke for the Johnson family. Sandstone gate piers; iron gates. High Victorian Gothic.
Gate piers square on plan at the base the upper sections octagonal; pair of iron gates; 2 sections of outward curving fencing to left and right.
Elaborate High Victorian gate piers, the upper parts battered, one batter with a brattished cornice. Each pier is crowned with a Gothic style iron lamp bracket with ornamental detail. The gates have curved diagonal braces, spike finials, a solid middle rail with pierced ornament and a standard ornamented with wrought iron foliage.
A well-preserved example of a High Victorian gateway.
Listing NGR: TQ5607348707
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM