Aug 4, 2021 · Built using traditional Kent ragstone, Ulcombe Place is a gracious family house with beautifully proportioned rooms set in delightful grounds that include a swimming pool within a walled garden.

Ulcombe Place, her home in Kent, is full of decorative footnotes, whether it’s the blue of a hussar’s uniform or the Austenesque air of its Georgian architecture. Here, she talks Inigo through her sources. Jane Mulvagh has many strings to her bow.

Ulcombe Place is a Grade II listed building in Ulcombe, Kent, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.

List entry 1060852. Grade II Listed Building: Ulcombe Place. May include summary, reasons for designation and history.

Ulcombe is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The name is recorded in the Domesday Book and is thought to derive from ' Owl -coomb': [3] 'coomb' (pronounced 'coo-m') meaning 'a deep little wooded valley; a hollow in a hill side' (Chambers Dictionary) in Old English.

Listed Building record TQ 84 NW 132 - ULCOMBE PLACE, Ulcombe Summary. Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1350 to 1899 Collegiate building, now a house.The college was founded in the 13th century. Early-to-mid 18th and 19th century alterations and additions. Main range stone, rear additions red brick with occasional grey headers ...

Jul 13, 2021 · Ulcombe Place, in the village of Ulcombe in Kent—a little more than an hour drive southeast of London—listed at the end of June with Strutt & Parker.

Quite a few older residents some years ago pronounced Ulcombe as Ukham or Ookem, which shows how a place name can evolve in speech. All Saints’ Church sits on the Greensand Ridge with commanding views over the Weald of Kent. The site was a pre-Christian sacred place and has two ancient yew trees.

Nov 16, 2006 · ULCOMBE ULCOMBE HILL TQ 84 NW (west side) 5/199 Ulcombe Place GV II Collegiate building, now house. Main range C15 or earlier. (College founded in C13). Early-to-mid C18 and C19 alterations and additions.

This place is ancient, as we read of this in the ‘History of Kent’. The gentleman who lived here came with William the Conqueror, and the St Leger family of Ulcombe Place. Now we come to Stone Hall.