The Dower House
THE DOWER HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070257
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1070257
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, THE 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 DOWER HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goodnestone
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 25423 54478
Details
GOODNESTONE THE STREET TR 25 SE (West side) 3/95 The Dower 13.10.52 House GV II* House. Circa 1500, altered late C18. Timber framed and roughcast with plain tiled roof. Wealden hall house plan of 4 framed bays. Two storeys and attic on plinth, with jetties to left and to right on dragon posts and with moulded bresummers. Recessed central bays with flying wall plate on arched braces. Moulded parapet to hipped roof with gablets, 2 flat roofed dormers and stacks to centre and at end left. Four wooden casements on first floor and 3 C20 cross windows and 1 C20 mullioned wooden casement on ground floor. Door of 6 panels to centre right with rectangular fanlight in moulded surround with flat hood. Recessed 2 storey wing to right with hipped roof, stack and 1 wooden casement on each floor. Interior: full frame visible with moulded ceiling joists. The screens passage is to left (south), not behind present door. Two four-centred arched screens doors to service wing with moulded jambs, rose spandrels and fernleaf and pomegranate spandrels. Very large inglenooks. Late C18 open well plan stair with unturned baluster and turned newels on closed string, with ramped handrail. Later framed wing to rear and C18 or C19 tiled dairy. The house, then known as Goodnestone Farm, features regularly in the correspondence of Jane Austen, whose brother married a daughter of Sir Brook Bridges of Goodnestone Park. (See G. Holyoake, Bygone Kent, Vol 3, no.5, May 1982).
Listing NGR: TR2542354478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177956
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bygone Kent in May, Vol. 3, (1982)
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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