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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1870 to 1985

Summary from record TQ 63 NW 12 :

House and terrace, now apartments 1870-72; stable courtyard and gate lodge c.1870.

Monument Types

• COURTYARD (COURT, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• LODGE (Lodge, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1870 AD to 1985 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LAMBERHURSRT BAYHAM ABBEY TQ 63 NW 2/128 Bayham Abbey and garden terraces 20.10.54 GV II
House and terrace, now apartments. 1870-72 for the Marquess Camden by David Brandon, architect, and converted 1985. Coursed hammer-dressed ragstone with green slate roofs. Jacobean style. Entrance (north) front: 3 storey main block with plinth, string course and modillion eaves cornice to balustraded roof with three irregularly sized and slightly projecting shaped gables to left and (paired) to centre, and stacks ranged from left to right and to right front. Ten variously sized stone mullioned and transomed windows on each floor, with 15 light stair window to centre right on first floor and central porte-cochère, with coupled columns, keyed and banded arches and pierced parapet. Lower 3 storey service wing to left also with shaped gable and with bell tower, and projecting 2 storey and single storey service buildings, enclosing a courtyard at end left. Garden elevation symmetrical and on smaller frontage, with similar detailing as to entrance front and with 2 shaped gabled wings projecting at left and right, with 2 storey bays, that to right canted, and central 2 storey bow window. Five bays in all. Two storey wing to right, with shaped gabled projecting centrepiece, and 2 bay arcaded porch linking to main block. Single storey pilastered garden room attached to left and, with octagonal stair vice, filling in re-entrant to return elevation of entrance front, with shaped gable and 2 storey canted bay. The house stands on a terraced platform projecting from the western elevation of the house and connected to it by a stone wall with wrought iron gate. The terrace is rectangular in plan with a bowed section to the south of the house, and has a pierced parapetted wall around it with occasional low piers, with an opening into the gardens to the west. The lowest levels are reached on the west side by a single flight of steps, and to the south by 3 flights of steps, all with low sidewalls and piers bearing urns. Overlooks a fine, probably largely earlier, landscaped park with the ruins of Bayham Abbey, and Brandon's church and various other features (Humphrey Repton was consulted c.1800). Interior: despite conversion to a number of units, the principal interiors survive, including Doric screened entrance hall leading to grand staircase (not seen); ballroom, with modillion cornice to panelled ceiling, and enriched marble fireplace and bow window shutters operated by patent mechanical system set within the window piers; dining room richly panelled in carved Italian walnut, and with swagged segmentally headed fireplace (the chimney pieces supplied by Earp, Kennington Road, London), and panelled ceiling.
Listing NGR: TQ6629036831

Description from record TQ 63 NW 12 :
[Name TQ 64473683] Bayham Abbey[NAT] (1) House and terrace, now apartments. 1870-72 for the Marquess Camden by David Brandon, architect, and converted 1985. Coursed hammer- dressed ragstone with green slate roofs. Jacobean style. [Full architectural description] LISTED GRADE II. Stable courtyard about 20 metres north east of Bayham Abbey, now apartments. 1870 for Lord Camden, David Brandon, architect, converted 1985. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. [Full architectural description] LISTED GRADE II. Gate lodge about 100 meters north west of Bayham Abbey, 1870 for Marquess Camden by David Brandon, architect. Random coursed rubble with ornamentally tiled roof. [Full architectural description] LISTED GRADE II. (2) The real, the medieval abey is over the border in Sussex. The symmetrical front of local sandstone has two shaped gables and looks down one way over a lake and to the monastic ruins in the other direction. Brandon also built the church in the park. (3)

<1> OS 1:10000 1976 (OS Card Reference). SKE48161.

<2> DOE(HHR)Dist of Tunbridge Wells, Kent (10 Oct 1989) 56-57 (OS Card Reference). SKE41388.

<3> Newman J(1980) The Buildings of England; West Kent and the Weald. 143 (OS Card Reference). SKE47538.

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