Leybourne Grange

TQ 65 NE 7/197

LEYBOURNE CP BIRLING ROAD (west side) Leybourne Grange

II Country house, now administration building for Leybourne Mental Hospital. Circa 1850 by S W Dawkes. Stuccoed facades with raised quoins to central and end projections on first two-storey and panelled pilasters to attic storey. String course between ground and first floors, cornice between first and attic floors and parapet with cornice moulding over attic. Slate hipped roofs, masked by parapet with various stacks, two of which stand in centre of parapet of end projections and are arched on line of parapet. Central projection crowned by pediment broken by open pedimented medicine framing coat-of-arms. Two storeys and attic, the attic forming an almost complete third storey. Regular eleven-bay facade, though the central projection is divided into two bays on attic storey with a single triple-arched window below. Pair of windows flanking central entrance. Glazing bar sashes throughout except sashes on ground floor and sashes without glazing bars in central first floor window and in two windows flanking main door. Ground and first floor windows have segment-headed eared surrounds with cill brackets. Central ground floor ponte-conchere with balustrade over six columns, paired at each end and with single columns dividing the wider central opening and the narrower flanking openings. Doubled half-glazed doors behind, with overlight.

Listing NGR: TQ6858258935