Kilndown House And Wall Projecting

GOUDHURST RISEDEN LANE TQ 73 NW (east side) 5/259 Kilndown House and wall projecting GV II House. 1849-55. R C Carpenter, architect. Ashlar sandstone with some red brick with slate roof. Two parallel main ranges, with projecting service wings. Two stacks on plinth with gabled roofs, with cylindrical stacks to left and to right and with projecting 2 storeyed wing at right. Decorated style tracered stair window to upper left, with single light below, and 3 two light trefoil headed windows on 1st floor, and 2 of three lights on ground floor, and 1 of three lights on each floor of projecting wing. Arched doorway in corner porch across re-entrant angle of 2 wings. Original main entrance in hipped porch on left return, originally partly open with moulded arched outer doorway and open lights to side wall. Single storey and attic wing to right return, with end stack, 2 gabled half-dormers and single light window. Garden front with gabled half dormer and mullioned lights to service wing, main range with 4 trefoiled windows on 1st floor, 3 on ground floor and large canted bay with tracered lights. Projecting from the entrance front is a short length of wall, of sandstone and red brick, about 8 feet high and about 10 yards in length. Interior: moulded arched inner doorways with drip moulds lead from original main entry porch to stair hall, with stone main staircase. Wooden arched door surrounds, some original doors with brass hinges and escutcheons/key plates. Cast iron fireplaces in wooden surrounds with attached shafts and brackets. Turned baluster service stair. Built originally as the vicarage to Kilndown Church and part of the complex of buildings on the Bedgebury estate associated with A Beresford-Hope (see also Bedgebury Park; Kilndown Church etc).

Listing NGR: TQ7015935609