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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 54 NW 154
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:HALL PLACE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1871 to 1872

Summary from record TQ 54 NW 16 :

Mansion 1871-2


Grid Reference:TQ 54482 46711
Map Sheet:TQ54NW
Parish:LEIGH, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1871 AD to 1872 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1258589: HALL PLACE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LEIGH LEIGH 1, 5280 High Street (North Side) (off) Hall Place TQ 5446 19/672 8.2.74. II GV 2. 1871-2 by George Devey. Large mansion in Tudor style. Irregular front to lakes, much broken back and forward. 2 storeys and attics, with many gable ends; and 3-storey, battlemented square tower. Some projecting 2-storey bays, battlemented or balustraded. Red brick with large diaper of blue headers. Slated roofs with tall brick stacks of elaborate grouped shafts. Stone dressings to battlements and gable ends; and stone mullions and transoms to windows. Doors under carved stone Tudor arches. Garden front in similar style and with 5-storey balustraded square tower at left. Courtyard at south-west end screened by curved walls.
Hall Place, the terrace walls and gates to the North West, the terrace walls and steps to North-East, the Estate office and workshop block, the Stable block and the Garden walls form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5448246711

Description from record TQ 54 NW 16 :
[Name TQ 54484673] Hall Place [NAT] (1) Hall Place. 1871-2 by George Devey. Large mansion in Tudor style. Irregular front to lakes. 2 storeys and attics with many gable ends; and 3 storey, battlemented square tower.[Full architectural description]LISTED GRADE II* Stable block to south west of Hall Place. Square building of 1872 (on datestone) surrounding cobbled courtyard.[Full architectural description]LISTED GRADE II* (2) Additional architectural reference. (3)


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<1> OS 1:10000 1973 (OS Card Reference). SKE48158.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Sevenoaks Kent(16 Jan 1975) 169,171 (OS Card Reference). SKE41344.

<3> Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald. 375-6 (OS Card Reference). SKE47550.

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 1:10000 1973.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR)Dist of Sevenoaks Kent(16 Jan 1975) 169,171.
<3>OS Card Reference: Newman J(1980)The Buildings of England:West Kent and the Weald. 375-6.

Related records

TQ 54 NW 210Parent of: Hall Place, Leigh (Landscape)