Listed Building record TQ 54 SW 239 - BOUNDARY WALL TO SWAYLANDS SCHOOL ALONG THE PENSHURST ROAD AND MARLPIT CORNER
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Location
| Grid reference | TQ 5351 4310 (point) | 
|---|---|
| Map sheet | TQ54SW | 
| District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT | 
| Civil Parish | BIDBOROUGH, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT | 
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 54 SW                BIDBOROUGH        MARLPIT CORNER
3/25                                      Boundary wall to Swaylands                                           School along the Penshurst                                           Road and Marlpit Corner
GV                                        II
Boundary wall.  Circa 1880s.  Roughly-dressed sandstone brought to course flanking the entrance, the other walls brick with a dentil moulding below the coping.
Plan:  The walls extend along the Penshurst Road and round Marlpit corner to the east, curving inwards at the entrance to the drive to Swaylands School and the entrance to the stable yard.
Exterior:  At the main entrance the sandstone walls are low with stone coping, crowned with iron railings with a barleysugar top rail on standards with wrought iron scrolls.  Squat octagonal gate piers with 2-tier pyramidal coping.  The entrance walls ramp up to taller brick walls which curve inward at the stable yard entrance to the west where there is a pair of C19 timber gates.
Group value with Swaylands School, separately listed in Penshurst parish.
Listing NGR: TQ5561443712
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