Well House With Rustic Seat At Tq 517455 is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 November 1990. Well house.
Well House With Rustic Seat At Tq 517455
- WRENN ID
- veiled-courtyard-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1990
- Type
- Well house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following building shall be added to the list:-
50/1547
PENSHURST B2176 (off) Well house with rustic seat at TQ 517 455
II
Well House with rustic seat. Built between 1810 and 1830 by William Wells. An octagonal structure of rustic poles with roof covered with shingles on stock brick plinth with red and black tiles. 3 sides have a framework of rustic branches 3 sides have entrances and the remaining 2 sides have the remains of benches with backs of vertical planks and thin poles nailed into Gothic shapes with scalloped pattern to the edge of the seat. The roof is boarded over and has 5 large pendants. In the centre is a spring with fountain lined in tiles with stone rockery above. One of a number of garden features on the former Redleaf estate whose gardens are on the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens for Kent. (See Loudon's 1839 article from the Gardener's Magazine on the Redleaf estate).
Listing NGR: TQ5179645497
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