St Albans Court
ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1070242
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Albans Court
- Statutory Address:
- ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1070242
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Albans Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT
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:
- ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nonington
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 26357 52640
Details
NONINGTON ST.ALBANS COURT TR 25 SE 3/157 St.Albans Court 13.10.52 GV I Country mansion. 1875-78 by George Devey for William Oxenden Hammond. Ragstone ground floor with brick upper floor with ragged edge between the two. Limestone dressings. Planned round 3 sides of north courtyard. Elizabethan style of picturesque irregularity with tall clusters of polygonal stacks, straight sided gables and bay windows, partly semi-circular and partly polygonal. Main entrance in north U-shaped courtyard through four-centred doorway with dripstone and spandrels in the centre bay of 3 gabled bays with polygonal tower with castellated parapet to south west. Semi-circular oriel bay window with parapet above entrance doorway. S.W. front with 1:2:1 gables with storeyed semi-circular bay window in front of truncated northernmost gable with adjoining chimney breast to north and with 8 light canted and storeyed bay window in front of southernmost gable.S.E. elevation with large gable on south and beyond it a stone doorway then 5 gables to north east, the left hand one truncated by a chimney breast and with the lofty transomed and mullioned semi-circular bay window with pierced parapet to hall rising at the junction between the first and second of 5 gables. North-easternmost gabled bay projects forward. Set back and to the north east are service wings with full height gabled bay and tower at north-east end. Interior; internal features of interest include 2 storey hall beyond entrance hall; this has gallery on first floor. Panelled walls with stairs rising through lofty basket arched doorway on the north west side; ornate Jacobean fireplace from Northbourne Court adjoining lofty bow window. Elsewhere, ribbed ceiling panels, panelled walls; fireplace surrounds;doors etc. Panelled dining room with fine chimney piece from Northbourne Court. The best of Devey's later houses. (see Country Life, April 8 1971; see also M. Girouard, The Victorian Country House,1979; see also B.O.E.Kent II,1983,404-5)
Listing NGR: TR2635752640
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178018
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971)
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 404-5
Country Life in 8 April, (1971)
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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