3 Military Road, railings and gate

3 Military Road, Sandgate, Kent, CT20 3BG

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3 Military Road, a modest early-C19 red-brick town house. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061204
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: 3 Military Road, railings and gate
Statutory Address:: 3 Military Road, Sandgate, Kent, CT20 3BG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1061204
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Sep-2020
List Entry Name:: 3 Military Road, railings and gate
Statutory Address 1:: 3 Military Road, Sandgate, Kent, CT20 3BG

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 3 Military Road, Sandgate, Kent, CT20 3BG

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County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandgate
National Grid Reference:: TR2056035253

Summary

3 Military Road, a modest early-C19 red-brick town house.

Reasons for Designation

3 Military Road, Sandgate, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as an early-C19 brick town house, notable for its modest form, being only one window wide; * the building retains original external features including a reeded doorcase, brick dentil cornice, and railings.

Group value:

* with 6 Gough Road, immediately adjacent to the south, which has a stone section, probably dating from the C18, to Gough Road, and a mid-C19 weatherboarded section to Military Road. To the south-east is the listed war memorial, and there are numerous listed buildings in Sandgate High Street, to the south.

History

Number 3 Military Road dates from the early C19. The house stands at the southern end of Military Road, constructed to link Shorncliffe Camp with the centre of Sandgate at the seafront. The house formerly had an industrial addition to the north.

The Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1871 clearly shows the two buildings; at that time the house had a garden or yard to the west containing a small outbuilding; this area is also shown on the 1938 map. The house is now enclosed to the west by the enlargement of number 6 Gough Road, to the south (listed at Grade II).

The List description of 1974 notes that at that time the house, then known as Alma Cottage, had an industrial two-storey weatherboarded addition attached to the north (number 5), with a loading door to the first floor. In 2002 this was demolished and replaced by a two-storey dwelling, the current number 5 Military Road.

Details

Early-C19 house.

MATERIALS: red brick, laid in Flemish bond, the basement painted; paint appears to have been removed from the ground floor. The house has a hipped tiled roof.

PLAN: the footprint of number 3 is rectangular, on an east/west alignment.

EXTERIOR: the house is of three storeys, above a basement, with a narrow east-facing street frontage. The doorway is in the southern part of the frontage, and has a reeded timber surround with paterae; the upper part of the doorcase is obscured by a later lead cover. The house has a single window to each storey, in the northern part of the frontage. The ground-floor window opening appears to have been widened, and contains horned sash frames. The narrower first-floor window opening has a gauged brick cambered arch; this opening also contains horned sash frames. The second-floor window opening shows some evidence of alteration, with a course of bricks on end making a flat arch, cutting into the cornice. The opening contains casement frames. The building has a brick dentil cornice. A sloping brick wall encloses the external stair to the basement. The basement is accessed by a narrow doorway, with a small window to the north.

INTERIOR: the interior was not inspected at the time of re-assessment (2020).

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the house is separated from the road by iron railings with spear finials set on a dwarf wall; the railings of the gate have fleur-de-lys finials.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 175398
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.