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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 72 NE 166
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:FIELD GREEN HOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1733 to 1899

Summary from record TQ 72 NE 20 :

Mid to late 18th century with some 19th century alterations.

Grid Reference:TQ 78531 29661
Map Sheet:TQ72NE
Parish:SANDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1733 AD to 1899 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1204749: FIELD GREEN HOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SANDHURST TQ72NE MEGRIMS HILL 1350-0/5/202 Field Green House 20/06/67 II* House. Mid to late C18 with some C19 alterations. Built of red brick with grey headers and hipped old tiled roof with 2 brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys, attics and basement; 5 windows. Stone stringcourse and parapet with stone coping and brick bracket cornice carried up within the parapet to form a pediment over the central 1st floor window which is segmental-headed with a keystone over. 12-pane sashes with ribbed brick voussoirs. Attic storey has large brick gable with pseudo-Venetian window added in C19 above the parapet in place of the central dormer. 2 end gabled dormers. Open pedimented doorcase with Tuscan half-columns shell fanlight and 6 panelled door approached up side flights of stone steps with cast iron handrail and incorporating Diocletian window to basement. The grandest C18 house in Sandhurst. (West Kent and the Weald).
Listing NGR: TQ7994428399

Description from record TQ 72 NE 20 :
(TQ78542968) Field Green House. [NAT] (1) House. Mid to late 18th century with some 19th century alterations. Built of red brick with grey headers and hipped old tiled roof with 2 brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, attics and basement; 5 windows. Listed Grade II*. [Full architectural description] (2) Field Green House. Mid 18th century house of 5 bays and 2 storeys. Plum and blue brick and scarlet dressings. (3)


<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.

<2> DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (108) (OS Card Reference). SKE40656.

<3> Newman, J 1980. The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (506) (OS Card Reference). SKE47561.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (108).
<3>OS Card Reference: Newman, J 1980. The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (506).