Penshurst Place and Gardens
PENSHURST PLACE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1243169
Date first listed: 10-Sep-1954
Statutory Address: PENSHURST PLACE
National Grid Reference: TQ 52745 43976
Details
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Penshurst Place TQ 5244 22/787 TQ 5243 23/787 lO.9.54.
I GV
2. Large, rambling building of various periods built largely of sandstone in differing colours but with some brickwork and a little Kentish ragstone. Elevations mostly battlemented, but some steeply-pitched tiled roofs visible. The oldest part is hall house built by John de Pulteney, license to crenellate 1341. Very large hall with fine timber roof resting on figure corbels. Carved screen of late C16. Solar end much altered with stone external curved stair of mid C15. Undercroft below has piers running into arches without capitals. Further license to crenellate of 1392 produced enclosing outer wall with square side and angle towers. Only south central gate tower (qv) survives complete and western stretch of wall. Mid C15 the Buckingham building, to west of old house, much altered in 1850's. To south of this the Elizabethan wing with long gallery on 1st floor. Rich plaster ceiling and Jacobean woodwork articulated by fluted pilasters. Sensitively restored. This links with altered south-west tower. Other Elizabethan ranges link altered north-west tower with north central tower and the latter to the original house. Central tower (King's tower) remodelled at this time. Considerable renewal of these parts aid building of long north-east section in 1818 by J B Rebecca in Tudor-Gothic style.
Penshurst Place, the South Central Tower and wall, the Southern Wall, the Inner Garden Wall and the Garden Wall form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5274543976
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1243169
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A house has stood at Penshurst at least since the Domesday Book (1085). Sir Stephen de Penchester (d. 1299) is the first recorded owner, he was Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. About 1338 Sir John de Pulteney, who had been Mayor of London 4 times, bought the manor and he and his descendants owned it into the 15th century. John, Duke of Bedford (d. 1435), who built on to the house the extension later called the Buckingham building & Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447) were owners in the 15th century. In 1521 the manor passed to the King and remained in royal possession until Edward VI bestowed it on Sir William Sidney. His son Henry added the north and west fronts of the house. In 1586 the house passed to Robery Sidney who added the Long Gallery and Nether Gallery to the house. By 1816 Penshurst was very near to becoming a romantic ruin. John Shelley and his son Philip and grandson the second Lord De L'lsle carried out extensive renovations over many years.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1243169
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Penshurst Place and Gardens.
The House, once the property of King Henry VIII, was left to his son King Edward VI and granted to my forebear Sir William Sidney in 1552. The Sidney family have been in continuous occupation for more than 460 years since. It is still a family home and all who live and work here welcome visitors to discover the charm of Penshurst in the State Rooms, Gardens, Parkland and beyond.
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One of the finest fortified manors in England.
Poet Sir Philip Sidney wrote of his family home that it was 'built of fair and strong stone, not affecting so much any extraordinary kind of fineness as an honourable representing of a firm stateliness; handsome without curiosity and homely without loathsomeness'. In other words, Penshurst Place does not overawe nor underwhelm; it is what it is; one of the best examples of a fortified medieval manor house in England.
While you're visiting Penshurst don't miss the chance to enjoy the parish church of St John the Baptist, where the Sidney Chapel boasts tombs to members of the family dating back to Sir Willliam Sidney, the first member of the family to live here.
Penshurst Place and Gardens
PENSHURST PLACE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1243169
Date first listed: 10-Sep-1954
Statutory Address: PENSHURST PLACE
National Grid Reference: TQ 52745 43976
Details
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Penshurst Place TQ 5244 22/787 TQ 5243 23/787 lO.9.54.
I GV
2. Large, rambling building of various periods built largely of sandstone in differing colours but with some brickwork and a little Kentish ragstone. Elevations mostly battlemented, but some steeply-pitched tiled roofs visible. The oldest part is hall house built by John de Pulteney, license to crenellate 1341. Very large hall with fine timber roof resting on figure corbels. Carved screen of late C16. Solar end much altered with stone external curved stair of mid C15. Undercroft below has piers running into arches without capitals. Further license to crenellate of 1392 produced enclosing outer wall with square side and angle towers. Only south central gate tower (qv) survives complete and western stretch of wall. Mid C15 the Buckingham building, to west of old house, much altered in 1850's. To south of this the Elizabethan wing with long gallery on 1st floor. Rich plaster ceiling and Jacobean woodwork articulated by fluted pilasters. Sensitively restored. This links with altered south-west tower. Other Elizabethan ranges link altered north-west tower with north central tower and the latter to the original house. Central tower (King's tower) remodelled at this time. Considerable renewal of these parts aid building of long north-east section in 1818 by J B Rebecca in Tudor-Gothic style.
Penshurst Place, the South Central Tower and wall, the Southern Wall, the Inner Garden Wall and the Garden Wall form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5274543976
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1243169
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A house has stood at Penshurst at least since the Domesday Book (1085). Sir Stephen de Penchester (d. 1299) is the first recorded owner, he was Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. About 1338 Sir John de Pulteney, who had been Mayor of London 4 times, bought the manor and he and his descendants owned it into the 15th century. John, Duke of Bedford (d. 1435), who built on to the house the extension later called the Buckingham building & Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447) were owners in the 15th century. In 1521 the manor passed to the King and remained in royal possession until Edward VI bestowed it on Sir William Sidney. His son Henry added the north and west fronts of the house. In 1586 the house passed to Robery Sidney who added the Long Gallery and Nether Gallery to the house. By 1816 Penshurst was very near to becoming a romantic ruin. John Shelley and his son Philip and grandson the second Lord De L'lsle carried out extensive renovations over many years.
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1243169
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Penshurst Place and Gardens.
The House, once the property of King Henry VIII, was left to his son King Edward VI and granted to my forebear Sir William Sidney in 1552. The Sidney family have been in continuous occupation for more than 460 years since. It is still a family home and all who live and work here welcome visitors to discover the charm of Penshurst in the State Rooms, Gardens, Parkland and beyond.
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One of the finest fortified manors in England.
Poet Sir Philip Sidney wrote of his family home that it was 'built of fair and strong stone, not affecting so much any extraordinary kind of fineness as an honourable representing of a firm stateliness; handsome without curiosity and homely without loathsomeness'. In other words, Penshurst Place does not overawe nor underwhelm; it is what it is; one of the best examples of a fortified medieval manor house in England.
While you're visiting Penshurst don't miss the chance to enjoy the parish church of St John the Baptist, where the Sidney Chapel boasts tombs to members of the family dating back to Sir Willliam Sidney, the first member of the family to live here.