Eythorne Court
EYTHORNE COURT, SHEPHERDSWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070315
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Eythorne Court
- Statutory Address:
- EYTHORNE COURT, SHEPHERDSWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070315
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Eythorne Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- EYTHORNE COURT, SHEPHERDSWELL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- EYTHORNE COURT, SHEPHERDSWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eythorne
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 27895 49395
Details
EYTHORNE SHEPHERDSWELL ROAD TR 24 NE 4/36 Eythorne Court 11.10.63 GV II House. C15 in origin, major alterations and extensions C16, C18 and late C19. Flint and red brick, in part rendered, with plain tiled roof. L-shaped building. Entrance in rear courtyard; 2 storey main block faced in C18 red brick, hipped roof with rear stacks with 2 storey hipped wing to left. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements, some with arched heads. Rib and stud door in four centred arched doorway with chamfer and label, all in moulded brickwork, in gabled porch at end left of wing. Garden front: 2 storeys on plinth, all of flint except left end upper storey rebuilt with red brick in English bond. Hipped roof. Two massive offset stacks in flint project at left and at right. Three sashes on first floor, and 2 on ground floor with central panelled door in trellised gabled porch. Blocked round headed openings to left in brick section. Interior: Crown post roof reported. Heavily altered late C19 by the Bethlem Hospital (then owners), destroying many features, but subsequently restored. (Igglesden, XX, 1927, p. 44; Kent Life, October 1980). Possibly originally built mid C15 for Sir Thomas Bourne, granted Licence to embattle (and impark) 27.HVI (Hasted, X, 1800, pp. 64-7).
Listing NGR: TR2789549395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177897
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Igglesden, C, Saunter through Kent with pen and pencil, (1927)
Kent Life in October, (1980)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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