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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 45 SW 199 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | RYSTED HOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1675 to 1975
| Grid Reference: | TQ 44442 53969 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ45SW |
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| Parish: | WESTERHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1675 AD to 1975 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 WESTERHAM WESTERHAM High Street (North Side)
Rysted House and No 2 TQ 4453 36/1374 10.9.54.
II*
2. Includes No 1 Croydon Road. 1675 with alterations. Main house of 2 storeys and attic, 4 windows, facing Croydon Road. Basement shop facing Hich Street. High pitched roof, hipped at south, renewed in machine tiles. Large chimney stack with round brick shafts near left hip. 3 modern dormers. Red brick walls with diaper of blue headers. 1st floor band. Gauged brick arches to mullioned and transomed windows with replaced leaded casements. Replaced sash windows with glazing bars 1st floor left. Modern plank door in wood doorcase of fluted pilasters and modified entablature. High Street elevation of 2 storeys and basement, 2 windows. C19 sash windows 1st floor, replaced 3-light casements ground floor. Modern but tasteful basement shop front with continuous wood entablature above. At north end kitchen extension behind modern arcaded loggia.
Listing NGR: TQ4444353970
Description from record TQ 45 SW 57 :
5280 WESTERHAM WESTERHAM High Street (North Side) Rysted House and No 2 TQ 4453 36/1374 10.9.54. II* (TQ 44445397 - OS 1:2500 1964) Includes No 1 Croydon Road. 1675 with alterations. Main house of 2 storeys and attic, 4 windows, facing Croydon Road. Basememt shop facing Hich Street. High pitched roof, hipped at south, renewed in machine tiles. Large chimney stack with round brick shafts near left hip. 3 modern dormers. Red brick walls with diaper of blue headers. 1st floor band. Gauged brick arches to mullioned and transomed windows with replaced leaded casements. Replaces sash windows with glazing bars 1st floor left. Modern plank door in wood doorcase of fluted pilasters and modified entablature. High street elevation of 2 storeys and basement, 2 windows. C19 sash windows 1st floor, replaced 3-light casements ground floor. Modern but tasteful basement shop front with continuous wood entablature above. At north end kitchen extension behind modern arcaded loggia. (1) Not mentioned in The Buildings of England. (2-3)
<1> DOE(HHR)Dist of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent Jan 1975 360 (OS Card Reference). SKE41349.
<2> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37967.
<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR)Dist of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent Jan 1975 360. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 (J Newman). |
| <3>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #31024 building, ] |
