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Latitude: 51.1666 / 51°9'59"N
Longitude: 0.1943 / 0°11'39"E
OS Eastings: 553511
OS Northings: 143110
OS Grid: TQ535431
Mapcode National: GBR MP9.V7T
Mapcode Global: VHHQ5.BY21
Plus Code: 9F32558V+MP
Entry Name: Boundary Wall to Swaylands School Along the Penshurst Road and Marlpit Corner
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1277666
English Heritage Legacy ID: 430785
ID on this website: 101277666
Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN11
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Bidborough
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: St Peter with Christ Church and St Matthew Southborough and St Lawrence Bidborough
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Wall
TQ 54 SW BIDBOROUGH MARLPIT CORNER
3/25 Boundary wall to Swaylands
School along the Penshurst
Road and Marlpit Corner
GV II
Boundary wall. Circa 1880s. Roughly-dressed sandstone brought to course
flanking the entrance, the other walls brick with a dentil moulding below the
coping.
Plan: The walls extend along the Penshurst Road and round Marlpit corner to
the east, curving inwards at the entrance to the drive to Swaylands School and
the entrance to the stable yard.
Exterior: At the main entrance the sandstone walls are low with stone coping,
crowned with iron railings with a barleysugar top rail on standards with
wrought iron scrolls. Squat octagonal gate piers with 2-tier pyramidal
coping. The entrance walls ramp up to taller brick walls which curve inward
at the stable yard entrance to the west where there is a pair of C19 timber
gates.
Group value with Swaylands School, separately listed in Penshurst parish.
Listing NGR: TQ5561443712
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