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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 56 NE 141
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:GAZEBO AND ATTACHED ARCHWAYS TO NORTH EAST OF FRANKS HALL

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899


Grid Reference:TQ 5553 6783
Map Sheet:TQ56NE
Parish:HORTON KIRBY AND SOUTH DARENTH, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1274005: GAZEBO AND ATTACHED ARCHWAYS TO NORTH EAST OF FRANKS HALL

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HORTON KIRBY FRANKS LANE 1. 5280 Gazebo and attached archways to north-east of Franks Hall TQ 56 NE 3/177 II 2. C16 and C17 altered in C19. The gazebo is a small square building of 2 storeys which is entered at first floor level from the terrace or lawn on its west side. It is faced with knapped flints with stone quoins. Wide C19 wooden modillion eaves cornice. Hipped tiled roof. On the ground floor of the north front is a stone doorway, and another in the north-east angle adjoining it. On the first floor of the north and east fronts is an original window with cement-coated brick mullion and surround. The windows on the south and west fronts have been altered in the C19. Adjoining to the south-east is a red brick archway flanked by pilasters with a curved pediment over it containing the date 1689 but the brickwork appears modern. This was moved from another position in front of the house. To the south-east there is a flint and stone archway with 4 centred archway. Modern stone finials.
Listing NGR: TQ5550267822 (1).

Visible as a free standing structure on the tithe map.

Post Elizabethan structure see (2).


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Maggie Henderson, 2014, Franks Hall, Horton Kirby, Kent: Archaeological Interpretive Survey (Unpublished document). SKE29674.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Unpublished document: Maggie Henderson. 2014. Franks Hall, Horton Kirby, Kent: Archaeological Interpretive Survey.

Related records

TQ 56 NE 165Part of: FRANKS HALL (Listed Building)