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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 54 SW 97 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | SOUTH CENTRAL ENTRANCE TOWER TO PENSHURST PLACE AND WALL ABUTTING TO EAST |
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Summary
Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1380 to 1420 Gatehouse, gateway to Penshurst Place, 14th century and later. Site of original curtain wall and towers.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 52777 43946 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ54SW |
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| Parish: | PENSHURST, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- GATEHOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1380 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (I) 1243044: SOUTH CENTRAL ENTRANCE TOWER TO PENSHURST PLACE AND WALL ABUTTING TO EAST |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST
South Central entrance Tower to Penshurst Place, and Wall abutting to East. TQ 5243 23/788
I GV
2. Battlemented square sandstone tower of circa 1400. Blocked square C17 or early C18 window on 1st floor. Slit windows flank C17 round arched doorway. Stretch of stone-battlemented brick wall to East. Penshurst Place, the South Central Tower and Wall, the Southern Wall, the Inner Garden Wall and the Garden Wall form a group. Listing NGR: TQ5278843956 (1)
Description from record TQ 54 SW 17 :
TQ 527349 Tower, wall, gatehouse and gateway to Penshurst Place. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST South Central entrance Tower to Penshurst Place, and Wall abutting to East. TQ 5243 23/788 I GV 2. Battlemented square sandstone tower of circa 1400. Blocked square C17 or early C18 window on 1st floor. Slit windows flank C17 round arched doorway. Stretch of stone-battlemented brick wall to East. Penshurst Place, the South Central Tower and Wall, the Southern Wall, the Inner Garden Wall and the Garden Wall form a group. (2) License to crenellate, granted in 1392 (following an earlier license of 1341) lead to the construction of an enclosing outer wall with square side and angle towers. Only the South central gate tower survives complete, and a stretch of wall. (3)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks Kent RD Jan 1975 218-220 (OS Card Reference). SKE40328.
<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & The Weald 1980 459 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37898.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #30703 building, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks Kent RD Jan 1975 218-220. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent & The Weald 1980 459 (J Newman). |
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