Description

HAWKHURST HASTINGS ROAD
TQ 7429-7529 (east side)

18/316 Stables, walled gardens
and outhouses adjoining
Collingwood House to the
south and west
GV II
Stable block, now annexe to Bedgebury Lower School. C18. Red brick, the rear
elevation in red and blue brick in band on santstone base with slate roof. Two
storeys with parapet to hipped roof. Loft storey with 4 half-sized casements and
blank recessed window spaces to left and to right, with C20 inserted single light
to left. Four glazing bar sashes on ground floor, and boarded door to right and
half-glazed door to left with sidelights, both doors with rectangular fanlights.
Central carriage entrance with double carriage doors and lunette over, all in
gauged semi-circular headed surround. Adjoining to the south a lean-to outhouse,
2 storeys, red and blue brick with slate roof. Two glazing bar sashes on first
floor, and boarded door to right on ground floor with 2 segmentally arched open-
ings to left, presumably kennels. A series of outhouses links the stable (and
though later accretions, the main house) to the walled gardens, the outer court
with glass house on arcaded brick base, the walls about 10 feet high of red and
blue brick with sandstone wall along roadside projecting southwards from stable
rear elevation about 60 yards. Inner court with walls about 10 feet high, in part
buttressed, with coping, ramped at corners, and with irregular openings, enclosing
an area about 20 yards by 50 yards.

Listing NGR: TQ7568729320

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26368407

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)