Charlton Court

Charlton Court, East Sutton Hill, East Sutton, ME17 3DG

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060925
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1981
List Entry Name:: Charlton Court
Statutory Address:: Charlton Court, East Sutton Hill, East Sutton, ME17 3DG

Postcard c1907 showing Filmer family on Charlton Court lawn. Ref of the postcard collection of contributor Robert Clark. — Uploaded by Robert Clark This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060925
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1981
List Entry Name:: Charlton Court
Statutory Address 1:: Charlton Court, East Sutton Hill, East Sutton, ME17 3DG

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Charlton Court, East Sutton Hill, East Sutton, ME17 3DG

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: East Sutton
National Grid Reference:: TQ 83434 49249

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 October 2024 to amend the name and address, amend description due to change in building use and to reformat the text to current standards. TQ 84 NW 5/70

EAST SUTTON EAST SUTTON HILL Charlton Court

(Formerly listed as Redhill School, EAST SUTTON ROAD)

4.11.81

GV II Unfinished country house, formerly farmhouse, school at time of listing. Dated 1612. Restoration and additions of mid C19. Unusual plan, resembling one of John Thorpe's designs (J. Newman, West Kent and the Weald, 1980). Red brick in English bond with rendered dressings. Plain tile roof. Fragment of a house the rest of which was never built.

Two storeys, attics and basement on high coursed galletted stone plinth. Deep moulded string course above ground floor and first floor windows. Shaped gable ends with moulded rendered coping. Three shaped brick gables to south elevation, also with rendered coping. Each south gable and each gable end has three-light ovolo-moulded rendered window with hoodmould. Regular three bay front to south of one two storey slightly canted bay towards each end and two storey central triangular bay, all with plain tiled roofs abutting the three gables and with string courses continued round them. Each rectangular bay has six-light rendered ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window to each floor, with side-lights. Central bay has two-light transomed window to each side on each floor. Two cross windows between each outer bay and central bay.

Further two storey triangular bay to left gabled end. Slender rendered shaft with bell capital and base to outer and inner angle of each bay, to corners of each south gable, and to each corner of ground and first floor to front and rear. Central bay terminates just above plinth, with shaped base. Half-glazed door beneath it. Blank rendered shield or motif to each south gable, and rendered strapwork to gable ends. Date 1612 to east gable end, and shield with monogram to west gable. C19 rear wings in similar style, with chimney stacks.

Interior: not inspected but said to contain plaster friezes, plaster strapwork to ceiling of window bays, and doors carved with early C17 figures of Faith, Hope and Charity (J. Newman, Op. Cit.]. C20 additions to rear and right not included.

Listing NGR: TQ8343449249

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 174087
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (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.