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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NE 91 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | Park House, Maidstone |
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Summary
(18thc and later) house Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1792 to 1792
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7587 5746 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NE |
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| Parish: | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1792 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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(TQ 75875747) Park House (NAT) (1) Park House, Chatham Road. Grade II* A square house built in 1792. From 1875-1893 the house was occupied by Edmund Law Lushington, the Greek scholar and Egyptologist, who married Tennyson, used frequently to stay there, and also other well- known figures of the day. (2) Additional bibliography. (3)
Description from record TQ 75 NE 770:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CHATHAM ROAD 1. 5278 (East Side) Park House TQ 75 NE 9/125 II*
2. A square house built in 1792. 2 storeys and attics ashlar with stone galleting. Mansarded slate roof. Cornice and parapet with balustraded panels inserted in front of the dormer windows. 4 pedimented dormers. Long and short stone quoins. 5 sashes on 3 fronts. Glazing bars intact on the 1st floor only. On the west front is a curved bay in the centre. this has 3 windows on the 1st floor and on the ground floor 2 windows, between them a bulging semi-circular porch projecting beyond the bay, with engaged Doric columns, triglyph frieze, but modern door. 5 stone steps to street. The south front has an addition of 2 storeys of lower elevation. 3 sashes, but 2 round-headed sashes on ground floor, Stringcourse. The interior contains a fine circular staircase with scrolled tread ends and plain column newel post. Good moulded cornices and C18 Adamesque fireplaces. From 1875-1893 the house was occupied by Edmund Lew Lushington, the Greek scholar and Egyptologist, who married Tennyson's sister Cecilia. It is described in the Prologue of ¨The Princess", Tennyson used frequently to stay there, and also other well-known figures of the day. Listing NGR: TQ7561457132 (4)
<1> OS 1:10000 1982 (OS Card Reference). SKE48168.
<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Maidstone Kent Aug 1974 19 (OS Card Reference). SKE41327.
<3> Bldgs of Eng - West Kent and the Weald 1980 404 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37686.
<4> 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: OS 1:10000 1982. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR)Dist of Maidstone Kent Aug 1974 19. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng - West Kent and the Weald 1980 404 (J Newman). |
| <4>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #19261 House, ] |
