New Street House

TL 39 22 7/24 24.1.67

Standon STANDON KENT'S LANE (south side) New Street House

GV II

Farmhouse, now a house and farm office. Early C18 eroded stone panel over door said to have the date '1749' but house is stylisticly of c1700). Extended to a square plan after 1843 for Duke of Wellington. Red brick with random blue headers. Extension in lighter red brick. Old red tile roofs. A formal L- shaped house of 2 storeys and attics facing E, with rear wing facing garden on S, and matching 2-storeys C19 additions in the angle making the plan square. Symmetrical 5 windows E front with chamfered plinth, floor band, central panelled door with a plain fanlight under a segmental brick arch, date panel over door and flush box sash windows with moulded frames and 6/6 panes (margin lights to ground floor sashes), under segmental brick arches. 2 semi-octagonal C19 one storey bay windows on S front with decorative tiles set in parapet with roll-moulded coping over arched French windows. Conservatory to W. Asymmetrical N front with gable parapets and door into N end of E range with pilastered Tuscan doorcase with dentil frieze and modillion cornice on small brackets. The name is taken from the adjacent road which was New Street in the C18.

Listing NGR: TL3932022550