Richborough House
RICHBOROUGH HOUSE, 7, BOWLING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069762
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Richborough House
- Statutory Address:
- RICHBOROUGH HOUSE, 7, BOWLING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069762
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Richborough House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RICHBOROUGH HOUSE, 7, BOWLING 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:
- RICHBOROUGH HOUSE, 7, BOWLING 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 32928 58315
Details
1. 5275 BOWLING STREET (West Side) No 7 (Richborough House) TR 3258 1/25 19.5.50.
II* GV
2. Late C16 timber framed house with 1st floor over-hanging on bressummer but refronted in the C18. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows on ground floor, 2 windows on 1st floor. One modern dormer with glazing bars. Front plastered but the plaster cut away in a square in the centre of the 1st floor and showing framing with brick infilling. Sash windows. Glazing bars intact. Wooden shutters on ground floor. C18 doorway with pilasters, rectangular fanlight 6-panel door and flat hood over attached to the bressummer but projecting beyond it. The exposed square of framing is over this. North side wall of stone rubble and flints with brick gable and brick kneelers with one blocked in C16 window.
No I (Water Lane House) Bowling Cottage and Nos 3 to 7 (odd) with Nos 1 to 5 (odd) Vicarage Lane form a group.
Listing NGR: TR3292358315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177289
- 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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