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Latitude: 51.1868 / 51°11'12"N
Longitude: 0.1139 / 0°6'50"E
OS Eastings: 547830
OS Northings: 145188
OS Grid: TQ478451
Mapcode National: GBR LMN.KMF
Mapcode Global: VHHQ3.XFLK
Plus Code: 9F3254P7+PH
Entry Name: Hever Castle
Listing Date: 10 September 1954
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1273465
English Heritage Legacy ID: 444816
ID on this website: 101273465
Location: Hever, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN8
County: Kent
District: Sevenoaks
Civil Parish: Hever
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Hever St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Castle Quadrangular castle English country house Historic house museum
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/02/2013
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Hever Castle
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Late C13 - early C14 keep with links to square towers at East and West, all battlemented. License to crenellate 1340. New wood footbridge over moat to portcullis in slightly projecting centrepiece of late C14 (another license of 1384) with machicolation above. Back wings of circa 1500, also in stone, with steep tiled roofs and mullioned and transomed windows. Windows inserted in old keep at similar period. Within courtyard restored exposed framing. Interior much restored in early C19. Hever Castle was the home of Anne Boleyn. It changed hands several times until purchased by Mr W W Astor in 1903, when F L Pearson added "The Village" a picturesque cluster of guest cottages. 2-storeys, or one storey and attic, irregular buildings. Some roofs tiled, some of Horsham stone, many gables; some jettied 1st floors. Upper floors mostly half timbered with plastered filling. Ground floors mainly roughly coursed stone with some brickwork. Some timbers carved. Little loggia, around angle of building nearest to Castle, leads to covered bridge over moat.
Listing NGR: TQ4783045188
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