Goldenhurst Manor

GOLDENHURST MANOR, GIGGERS GREEN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071221
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:
Goldenhurst Manor
Statutory Address:
GOLDENHURST MANOR, GIGGERS GREEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071221
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1957
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Goldenhurst Manor
Statutory Address 1:
GOLDENHURST MANOR, GIGGERS GREEN ROAD

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GOLDENHURST MANOR, GIGGERS GREEN ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Aldington
National Grid Reference:
TR 06862 34768

Details

TR 03 SE ALDINGTON GIGGERS GREEN ROAD (south side) 7/37 Goldenhurst Manor 27.11.57 (formerly listed as part of Goldenhurst Farmhouse) GV II House. C17 or earlier, clad C18, extended 1927-30. Timber framed and clad with painted ragstone and tile hung, with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and hipped roof with gablets and stack to end right. Two wooden casements on each floor. Rear with 1930's bow window and 2 storey hipped wing of red brick in English bond. Single storey extensions to north end of house, of painted brick and plain tiled roofs, with moulded stack, that to west of main range with present entry (boarded door with flat hood). Main block dated 1707 on down- pipes, initialed T.G.M. The extensions and refurbishment were largely done for Noel Coward, who joined the farmhouse, cottage and barns on this site into a single dwelling, now again divided into 2 (see also, Goldenhurst, the Old House). Coward lived here 1926-1956, most building work was done 1927-30; his main residence out of London and Switzerland. (See Present Indicative, N. Coward, 1937). 'Cavalcade' was written here 1931.

Listing NGR: TR0686234768

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
181622
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Coward, N, Present Indicative, (1937)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Goldenhurst Manor

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