Belle Vue House Belle Vue House and Flats
BELLE VUE HOUSE AND FLATS, ALDINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061111
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Belle Vue House Belle Vue House and Flats
- Statutory Address:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE AND FLATS, ALDINGTON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061111
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Belle Vue House Belle Vue House and Flats
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE AND FLATS, ALDINGTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE, OTTERPOOL LANE
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:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE AND FLATS, ALDINGTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- BELLE VUE HOUSE, OTTERPOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lympne
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 10982 35196
Details
TR13 NW LYMPNE ALDINGTON ROAD (North Side)
3/4 Belle-Vue House and 10.10.74 Flats (formerly listed as Lympne Country Club)
II
House, formerly Country Club, now house and flats. Early C18, possibly with earlier core. Alterations and additions 1909. Front elevation roughly coursed stone with brick window dressings to ground floor, red brick with vitreous headers in a mixed bond toX first floor. Right return elevation stone to ground floor, red brick in Flemish bond above. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Right return elevation has brick plat band and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Hipped roof, right hip returning. Rear stacks to left and right. Central brick ridge stack and 2 gable end stacks to right. Irregular fenestration of 5 slightly-recessed sashes; one 12-pane, one 8-pane, one wood mullion window comprising two 12-pane sashes, and two tripartite sashes. Similar ground-floor windows, but 1909 bow windows under tripartite sashes. Splayed rectangular window with 2 iron bars to left gable end (ground floor). Half-glazed door under stack with moulded rounded hood on consoles and with panelled architrave. Datestone 1706 over door (possibly re-set). Short rear return wing to right, with panelled door of 1909 under Doric porch. Later rear range parallel to front. C19 rear service wing to left. Doric colonnades of 1909 to garden front. Interior: partly inspected. Fragments of C18 cornice and panelling. Staggered butt-purlin roof. General Sir John Moore lived here while in command of troops training at Shorncliffe Camp 1803-1806.
Listing NGR: TR1098235196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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