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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 93 SE 38 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | LEACON HALL |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1708 to 1708
Summary from record TQ 93 SE 13:
Leacon Hall: listed building
| Grid Reference: | TQ 98663 33087 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ93SE |
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| Parish: | WAREHORNE, ASHFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1708 AD to 1708 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1185579: LEACON HALL |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 93 SE WAREHORNE HAM STREET ROAD (north side) Leacon Hall 5/168 GV II* House. 1708 for Hodges family. Red and blue chequered brickwork with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic on plinth with wooden moulded and modillioned eaves cornice to hipped roof with 3 pedimented dormers with horizontally sliding glazing bar sashes, and stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 7 glazing bar sashes on 1st floor and 6 on ground floor, with thick glazing bars and rubbed brick heads, the central 1st floor window especially frilly and ornate. Central door of 6 moulded panels with rectangular fanlight and open moulded segmental pediment on enriched consoles and moulded panel pilasters. Interior: raised and fielded panelled rooms through- out, with separate dado and infilling panelling, with simple moulded fireplaces. Entrance hall with angle fireplace, and wide, keyed segmental arch to staircase hall. This arch is painted with Unicorn and Lion on the responds. Initials KH and date 1708 on key and spandrels, and painted swags and enrichment (by the same craftsman who executed the Royal Arms and prayer boards in the Church of St. Matthew, Warehorne). Dog leg and landing staircase with turned balusters on enriched scrolled tread ends with moulded hand rail. Raised and fielded panelled dado with fluted pilasters and ramped rail.
Listing NGR: TQ9866533087
Description from record TQ 93 SE 13:
(TQ98663308) Leacon Hall [NAT] (1) Leacon Hall (Listed Grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (2)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.
<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 10 August 1988 (87) (OS Card Reference). SKE40463.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 10 August 1988 (87). |
