Description

TQ 65 NE
7/198

LEYBOURNE CP
BIRLING ROAD (west side)
Stable block 50 yards north west of Leybourne Grange

II
Stable block. c1850. Yellow stock brick with ashlar dressings. Shallow hipped slate roofs with five stage tower in angle. One storey to east, two to south, three to north behind tower.

East wing: South side. Four bays, windows arched with flanking lights and overlights all set in arched recesses with doubled arched dressings and keystones. Doubled boarded doors in entrance second bay front left.

South wing: East front (block to left of above). Six bays with boarded doors in outer bays, windows in two central bays, all in ground floor niches with double dressed arches. Second bays from each end of storeys, with windows below single dressed niches and shallow doors to left on first floor with double dressed arches. Single dressed round windows in first, third, fourth and sixth bays on first floor. Louvred top bit ventilation house off-centre on roof.

Tower: Arched doorway with panelled door on ground floor to east. Margin-light arched double-dressed window to east and south, on first floor lower to south, lighting stairs. These repeated at similar levels on second floor. Chimney-breast bracketed out on second floor to east on block to rear. Moulded stone bands below second, third and fourth floors. Clock faces to south and east on third floor. Triple arched belfry openings on fourth floor with large louvres. Bracketed cornice to pyramidal slate roof with weather vanes.

North side: Symmetrical three-storey block to right fronting tower with pyrammidal slate roof. Segment-headed openings to three-window front with central first floor shallower than others. Casement windows except glazing bar sashes on first floor. Central boarded door.

Listing NGR: TQ6858258935

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392333

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