Manwood Close Manwood Court
MANWOOD CLOSE, 91, STRAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069546
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Manwood Close Manwood Court
- Statutory Address:
- MANWOOD CLOSE, 91, STRAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069546
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Apr-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Manwood Close Manwood Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANWOOD CLOSE, 91, STRAND STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MANWOOD COURT, 93, STRAND STREET
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:
- MANWOOD CLOSE, 91, STRAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MANWOOD COURT, 93, STRAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sandwich
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 32768 58519
Details
1. 5275 STRAND STREET (South Side) No 91 (Manwood Close) and No 93 (Manwood Court) [Formerly listed as No 91 (Manwood Court)] TR 3258 1/53 19.5.50. TR 3258 5/53
II*
2. Originally Sir Roger Manwood's Grammar School, now 2 private houses. Dated 1564 in iron letters, forming the dogs of beams behind, on the front of the house. Restored in 1892. Thin yellow brick, 2 storeys and attic. Seven windows, 5 dormers with crow-stepped gables terminating in small octagonal shafts. (The finials now missing). Parapet between the gables. The original windows exist in the gables in lead lights. Moulded labels still remain over the windows in the gables and the 1st floor. Sash windows inserted on the 1st floor. Sash windows inserted on the 1st floor, glazing bars intact, and one small bay at the east end. Modern windows on the ground floor. C19 ground floor projection towards the east end, with porch in front of it having a shaped gable. The east and west walls have 2 chimney breasts, each with half a stepped gable on the outer sides of these and a pointed gable of the house between the chimney breasts, these pointed gables terminating in the same small round shafts as the dormers of the main front.
Listing NGR: TR3276058520
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177678
- 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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