Listed Building record TQ 73 NW 186 - KILNDOWN HOUSE AND WALL PROJECTING

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1849 to 1855

Location

Grid reference TQ 7015 3560 (point)
Map sheet TQ73NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish GOUDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
GOUDHURST RISEDEN LANE TQ 73 NW (east side)
5/259 Kilndown House and wall projecting GV II House. 1849-55. R C Carpenter, architect. Ashlar sandstone with some red brick with slate roof. Two parallel main ranges, with projecting service wings. Two stacks on plinth with gabled roofs, with cylindrical stacks to left and to right and with projecting 2 storeyed wing at right. Decorated style tracered stair window to upper left, with single light below, and 3 two light trefoil headed windows on 1st floor, and 2 of three lights on ground floor, and 1 of three lights on each floor of projecting wing. Arched doorway in corner porch across re-entrant angle of 2 wings. Original main entrance in hipped porch on left return, originally partly open with moulded arched outer doorway and open lights to side wall. Single storey and attic wing to right return, with end stack, 2 gabled half-dormers and single light window. Garden front with gabled half dormer and mullioned lights to service wing, main range with 4 trefoiled windows on 1st floor, 3 on ground floor and large canted bay with tracered lights. Projecting from the entrance front is a short length of wall, of sandstone and red brick, about 8 feet high and about 10 yards in length. Interior: moulded arched inner doorways with drip moulds lead from original main entry porch to stair hall, with stone main staircase. Wooden arched door surrounds, some original doors with brass hinges and escutcheons/key plates. Cast iron fireplaces in wooden surrounds with attached shafts and brackets. Turned baluster service stair. Built originally as the vicarage to Kilndown Church and part of the complex of buildings on the Bedgebury estate associated with A Beresford-Hope (see also Bedgebury Park; Kilndown Church etc).
Listing NGR: TQ7015735612


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