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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 85 SE 258 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | R B HOUSE AND HAND RAILS ATTACHED |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1832
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8984 5221 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ85SE |
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| Parish: | LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1400 AD to 1832 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1344287: R B HOUSE AND HAND RAILS ATTACHED |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LENHAM THE SQUARE TQ 8952 (west side)
10/230 R.B.House and hand- rails attached 26.4.68. (Formerly listed as Stanfield House) GV II
House, now offices. Early C19. Described in former List as C15 building refaced in early C19. Rendered brick with plain tile roof. Double depth. 3 storeys and semi-basement on plinth, with plain wood eaves cornice. Front and rear sections have separate hipped roofs. Large red brick ridge stack to right of centre of each section and very small brick stack to left end between sections. Regular 3-window front of recessed glazing-bar sashes, ground and first floor windows with single Soanian line over. Reeded architrave with semi-circular head, up 4 steps withiron hand-rails, between left and central windows, containing recessed door of 6 fielded panels with semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Blocked door between left window and left end. Interior: C19 features. Some walls said to be studded.
Listing NGR: TQ8983952208
The house was used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital by VAD Kent/134 from May 1915 -December 1918, with 35 beds.
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
