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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1879.

Monument Types

• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1467 AD to 1879 AD)
• HOUSE (Altered, Medieval to Modern - 1474 AD to 2007 AD)
• MOAT (Medieval to Modern - 1474 AD to 2007 AD)
• PARK (Medieval to Modern - 1488 AD to 2007 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 74703665] Glassenbury House [TI] Moat [GT] (1) Glassenbury, the moat exists and some portions of the c.1474 house can be seen in the north-east corner of the present mansion which is mainly 18th c. Licence to empark 1600 acres was granted in 1488. (2-3) The description above is correct and the moat is still water filled. No certain remains of the park were found. Published 25" survey revised. (4)

Disparked in reign of Henry VII and new owner Walter Roberts built a new front to the mansion.

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK GLASSENBURY ROAD TQ 73 NW (west side) 2/109 Glassenbury Park House 27.1.77 - II*
Country house with moat in landscaped park. Late C15, with front block of circa 1730-40, remodelled in 1877-79 by Anthony Salvia, all for the Roberts family. Main front (south) largely rebuilt after 1951. SOUTH FRONT: Red brick with sand stone quoins, window cills and eaves parapet. Plain tiled roof with gable parapets and kneelers, tall, part projecting gable stacks with oversail- ing cornices, and banded central stack behind main ridge. Slight central 5 bay projection to facade with quoins supporting very wide open pediment with oculus. 2 bay wings with windows more widely spaced. 2 storeys; symmetrical 9 bay front, glazing bar sashes. Central projecting porch with arched entrance and side openings and half columns flanking doorway. Panelled door. Large irregular wings to rear, mostly 2 storeys with attics, with buttresses and stone-dressed mullioned windows. Interior: Hall with panelling dated 1571. probably moved from elsewhere. 3-flight open well staircase opening of hall to left at rear. Study with salvin panelling and Jacobean columned salvin fire- place. Hasted gives the date c.1473 for the building of the original house ( - ). Surrounded by moat with dressed stone walls and with single span arched bridge with solid parapets to south and secondary bridge to east.
Listing NGR: TQ7470836648

<1> OS 6" 1907-38 (OS Card Reference). SKE48320.

<2> MHLG Prov List Cranbrook RD Nov 1960 33 8/147 (OS Card Reference). SKE47148.

<3> Trans R Hist Soc NS 16 136 139 (IS Leadham) (OS Card Reference). SKE50659.

<4> F1 CFW 21-FEB-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42684.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 73 NW 5 - February, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3709.

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