Description

TQ 57 NE SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE GREENHITHE

989/1/10004 The Grange (including attached
tunnels and garden arch) in the
08.10.1997 grounds of Ingress Abbey at
TQ 592 750

II

Garden folly in the shape of a gatehouse with attached storage chambers and garden arch. C1833. Flint with stone dressings. Comprises square structure of two or three storeys with octagonal turrets with lancet windows and four-centred stone arch. Vaulted undercroft and two chambers on ground floor. Attached to the west is an L-shaped tunnel with storage rooms accessed by two segmental-headed openings. The tunnel is flint lined with red header brick corner, niche probably to contain a lantern, red brick or cement rendered band, round headed stock brick roofand five rectangular chambers carved out of the chalk. Attached to the west flint retaining wall is a flint four-centred arch about 8 feet in height with a splayed chamber cut out of the hillside which probably originally held a garden seat. One of a series of garden buildings in the grounds of Ingress Abbey (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ5920075000

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26644019

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6