Listed Building record TQ 54 NE 188 - GATE PIERS AND PAIR OF GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO MOUNTAINS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1865 to 1865

Location

Grid reference TQ 5619 4887 (point)
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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  • --- Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM