Listed Building record TQ 72 NE 115 - STABLES, WALLED GARDENS AND OUTHOUSES ADJOINING COLLINGWOOD HOUSE TO THE SOUTH AND WEST

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799

Location

Grid reference TQ 7568 2931 (point)
Map sheet TQ72NE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HAWKHURST HASTINGS ROAD TQ 7429-7529 (east side)
18/316 Stables, walled gardens and outhouses adjoining Collingwood House to the south and west GV II Stable block, now annexe to Bedgebury Lower School. C18. Red brick, the rear elevation in red and blue brick in band on santstone base with slate roof. Two storeys with parapet to hipped roof. Loft storey with 4 half-sized casements and blank recessed window spaces to left and to right, with C20 inserted single light to left. Four glazing bar sashes on ground floor, and boarded door to right and half-glazed door to left with sidelights, both doors with rectangular fanlights. Central carriage entrance with double carriage doors and lunette over, all in gauged semi-circular headed surround. Adjoining to the south a lean-to outhouse, 2 storeys, red and blue brick with slate roof. Two glazing bar sashes on first floor, and boarded door to right on ground floor with 2 segmentally arched open- ings to left, presumably kennels. A series of outhouses links the stable (and though later accretions, the main house) to the walled gardens, the outer court with glass house on arcaded brick base, the walls about 10 feet high of red and blue brick with sandstone wall along roadside projecting southwards from stable rear elevation about 60 yards. Inner court with walls about 10 feet high, in part buttressed, with coping, ramped at corners, and with irregular openings, enclosing an area about 20 yards by 50 yards.
Listing NGR: TQ7568729320


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