The Salutation
THE SALUTATION, KNIGHTRIDER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1069643
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Salutation
- Statutory Address:
- THE SALUTATION, KNIGHTRIDER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1069643
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Salutation
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SALUTATION, KNIGHTRIDER 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:
- THE SALUTATION, KNIGHTRIDER 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 33366 58124
Details
1. 5275 KNIGHTRIDER STREET (East Side) The Salutation TR 3358 1/186 19.5.50. I GV
2. Built by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1912 in Queen Anne style. 2 storeys, attic and semi-basement. Red brick with long and short stone quoins. Stone stringcourse. Coved wooden eaves cornice. Hipped tiled roof. Sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance front has 7 windows. 3 centre window bays project with quoins at the angles. 2 hipped dormers, the centre one with pediment over. Stone doorway with broken curved pediment, the doorway approached by a flight of 11 wide steps with handrail. The garden front has 6 windows with a sundial in the centre and below it a stone panel containing swags and festoons of fruit. 4 dormers. Wide flight of steps from the garden leads up to the 3 centre window bays. The south side has 5 windows and 3 dormers; also a stone panel in the centre with swags and festoons of fruit. Internal panelling said to have been brought from a demolished building in St James' London. Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll.
The Salutation, Salutation Cottage and gateway and outbuildings form a group.
Listing NGR: TR3337058143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177507
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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