The Belvedere
THE BELVEDERE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051607
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Belvedere
- Statutory Address:
- THE BELVEDERE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051607
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- The Belvedere
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BELVEDERE
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:
- THE BELVEDERE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepherdswell with Coldred
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 28160 47499
Details
TR 24 NE SHEPHERDSWELL & COLDRED WALDERSHARE PARK 2/113 The Belvedere 22.8.62 I Belvedere. 1725-7 by Lord Burlington for Sir Henry Furnese. Plum coloured brick with Portland stone dressings. Externally rectangular in plan (a double cube on its smaller area) internally arranged on circular plan. Three storeys on stone plinth with rusticated quoins to ground floor only, with double projecting plat band, and sill-course over. Main entrance on north front, with large rust- icated semi-circular doorway. At first floor level a large Venetian window with Gibbs surround and triple keystones to all three openings, the main window originally balustraded. Single lugged square mezzanine window. The south front is a copy without the basement doorway. Identical east and west fronts with, in the basement, central semi-circular windows (or doors?) with Gibbs surround with side windows with large keystones and moulded surrounds. First floor with flanking windows with pulvinated frieze and cornice, and central semi-circular Ionic windows, with damaged balustrading below. Three square lugged mezzanine windows, one on east fgace with moulded stone surround missing. Pulvinated cornice and balustrade on top. Interior: ground floor with circular saucer domed ceiling, intact apart from a small, roughly 2 feet square hole. Fireplace on southern wall. Within the angles of the square enclosing this circular space were 3 chambers, and a spiral stair, still largely surviving in the south-east corner. The upper storeys, originally circular, and intended as a music room, are now ruinous. The whole, costing £1703 7s 4d to build, is one of Burlington's few surviving attested buildings. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 488).
Listing NGR: TR2794548248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 488
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,
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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