TOWER LODGE AND FLANKING WALLS, EASTWELL PARK

TOWER LODGE AND FLANKING WALLS, EASTWELL PARK, FAVERSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1071321
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:: TOWER LODGE AND FLANKING WALLS, EASTWELL PARK
Statutory Address:: TOWER LODGE AND FLANKING WALLS, EASTWELL PARK, FAVERSHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1071321
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:: TOWER LODGE AND FLANKING WALLS, EASTWELL PARK
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER LODGE AND FLANKING WALLS, EASTWELL PARK, FAVERSHAM ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER LODGE AND FLANKING WALLS, EASTWELL PARK, FAVERSHAM ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Boughton Aluph
National Grid Reference:: TR 01415 45930

Details

TR 04 NW BOUGHTON ALUPH FAVERSHAM ROAD (north side) Goat Lees

5/42 Tower Lodge and Flanking Walls,Eastwell Park 27.11.57

GV II

Tower and Gateway. 1848. William Burn. Knapped, squared and coursed flint, with ashlar quoins, window dressings and banding. Tower lodge: 3 storeys with four corner turrets, each of 4 storeys with ashlar quoins and dressings on plinth. Ground floor of square section, with weathered base to octagonal upper storeys. String course to first floor, moulded stone cornice to second floor, and entablature and cornice to ogeed cupola. Chamfered stone mullioned windows, 2 light on ground floor, single light above on alternate faces. Central 2 storey gateway, with wrought iron double gates and wrought iron overthrow over. Heavy strap-work and rusticated pilasters to rusticated arch and strap-work in spandrels. String course with carved fleur-de-Lys frieze over, to second floor chamber, with single-light chamfered windows either side of full achievement with grotesque pilasters supporting entabluture with cornice and pierced balustrade. Interior: Chamber over gateway with mosaic of Alexander the Great's victories. Flanking walls: 6 feet high sweeping out, 25 yards to left and right of squared coursed flintwork, with ashlar-quoined piers, ball finials and stone balustrades terminated by panelled piers with large crowned lions bearing coats of arms. The wall then extends a further 25 yards either side as uncoursed flint, with coping stones.

Listing NGR: TR0139045944

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Legacy System number:: 181369
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.