Listed Building record TQ 73 SE 82 - QUADRANT WALLS AND GATE PIERS TO TONGSWOOD DRIVE
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7745 3018 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ73SE |
District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Civil Parish | HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 7630-7730 (north side)
17/412 Quadrant walls and gte piers to Tongswood Drive GV II Quadrant walls and gate piers. Early C20. Red brick and ashlar details with cast or wrought iron railings. Free Baroque revival style. Stone, panelled gatepiers with modillion cornice to ball-finial (ball lost on right hand pier), with brick quadrant walls sweeping in concave curves to left and to right, the cornice depressed in semi-circular sweeps filled with lengths of spear-head rails with scrolled centre panels, with pedimented central feature. The quadrants terminated by lower stone piers, the walls ramped down and extending some 10 yards to right, and about 40 yards to left. The central iron carriage gate is missing. Formerly the main entrance to the Tongswood estate.
Listing NGR: TQ7746030185
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