FORECOURT GARDEN AND STABLE WALLS TO KNOWLTON COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1070288
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: FORECOURT GARDEN AND STABLE WALLS TO KNOWLTON COURT
Statutory Address:: FORECOURT GARDEN AND STABLE WALLS TO KNOWLTON COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1070288
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: FORECOURT GARDEN AND STABLE WALLS TO KNOWLTON COURT
Statutory Address 1:: FORECOURT GARDEN AND STABLE WALLS TO KNOWLTON COURT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORECOURT GARDEN AND STABLE WALLS TO KNOWLTON COURT

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 28061 53323

Details

GOODNESTONE KNOWLTON TR 25 SE 3/67 Forecourt garden and stable walls to Knowlton Court GV II Forecourt, garden and stable courtyard walls. C17 and rebuilt and extended c.1904 by Reginald Blomfield. The front court is approximately 50 metres by 50 metres, consisting of red brick wall about 7 feet high, with simple wrought iron gate and steps to south to garden area, and wrought gates to north to stable court. West wall about 2 feet high with plain iron rails, and central gates, the gate piers with stone ball finials, the pedestrian gates with smaller, bifurcated foliate overthrows, the central gates on wrought iron piers, with central panels of clasped straps, and elaborately bifurcated foliated overthrow. From the north west corner of the house a wall runs out to the stable courtyard, including 2 large gate piers with ball finials by the house and section of wall about 8 feet high, all C18, the rest of the wall about 6 feet high and extending for about 50 metres, until it sweeps to the west, about 8 feet high again, and terminates in a stable building, now garage, 1 storey and attic with kneelered gables and loft door in right return, with C20 garage doors on ground floor, and 1 storey extension to left, also with kneelered gable.South and east of Knowlton Court, and reached by the flight of steps from the front court, are semi-formal gardens laid out by Blomfield, with balustraded terraces, flights of steps crowned with urn finials, and enclosing walls with gate piers with scrolled shoulders and ball finials. (See Country Life,Vo139)

Listing NGR: TR2813653331

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Legacy System number:: 177928
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 39, ()

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.