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Long Barn

Gazetteer No. G0401

Date 1925

Address Sevenoaks, Kent TN14 6 NH England


Description

Long Barn, Long Barn Road. Late medieval timber-framed hall house, the hall partly reopened to its full height, to display the crown-post. The re-erected c16 barn at right angles, and the six grassed terraces constructed for Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, who lived here 1915–30, before moving to Sissinghurst Castle. Dutch garden laid out for them by Lutyens, 1925. (Pevsner, 2012, p.534)

Bibliography

Pevsner N (2012) Kent: West and the Weald. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Listing Grade

II*

Listing Reference

1272861

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