Description

1351/16/339
20-JUN-67

HAWKHURST

HIGH STREET
(North side)
Oakfield House and Wellington House
(Formerly listed as:
HIGH STREET
Oakfield)

GV
II

House, now subdivided. Early C19. Rendered, with stock brick return elevations. Slate roof. Three storeys, the ground floor rusticated horizontally, with plat band, cornice to top storey, and paired modillion eaves brackets to hipped roof with stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 3 half-sized glazing bar sashes on 2nd floor, 3 full sized on first floor in moulded surrounds with cornices on brackets, and 2 segmentally headed tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor. Central glazed double doors with sidelights and rectangular fanlight in porch with coupled Ionic columns and cornice. Recessed 2 storey hipped wing to left with tripartite glazing bar sashes on each floor, and single storey wing to right with tripartite glazing bar sash with segmental head, and to right return. Built for Henry Winchester, Lord Mayor of London 1834/5, entertaining there, amongst others, the Duke of Wellington.

Listing NGR: TQ7571930767

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623022

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)