Description

WEST MALLING

TQ6857 SWAN STREET 1156-0/3/151 Went House 01/08/52

GV II*

House. c1710 with late C18 L-wing. Exceptionally fine Queen Anne front. Built of brown brick with red brick dressings with steeply pitched tiled roof to front range and slate roof to wing. 4 tall red brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows to front, with 2 window spaces in end projection, 4 windows to left side elevation. Front has stone coping and panelled parapet. Moulded terracotta eaves cornice 5 cambered 12-pane sashes with jalousies and centre brick keystones. Recessed rectangular brick panels. Deep plinth. Central doorcase with cornice, reeded pilasters, rectangular fanlight, panelled reveals and 8-panelled double doors. Left side elevation has 1 narrow 8-pane sash, 2 12-pane cambered sashes and ground floor has two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. To the left is a projecting bay of diaper brickwork with cambered 16-pane sash to 1st floor and cambered 6-pane sash with horns to ground floor. External brick chimneystack with tumbling in. Ragstone extension to rear. Interior has fine main staircase of c1710 with 3 turned balusters and scrolled tread ends and panelled hall with dado rail. Right side ground floor room has dado panelling and an C18 fireplace with eaved architrave, swags and panel with carved basket of fruit. Subsidiary winder staircase with turned balusters. (Buildings of England: Newman J: West Kent and the Weald: 579).

Listing NGR: TQ6833857741

External Links

• Wikidata Q17546938

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide