Swinford Manor

Swinford Manor, Godinton Lane, Great Chart, TN23 3FZ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1115575
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1980
List Entry Name:: Swinford Manor
Statutory Address:: Swinford Manor, Godinton Lane, Great Chart, TN23 3FZ

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Date:: 2006-06-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1115575
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1980
List Entry Name:: Swinford Manor
Statutory Address 1:: Swinford Manor, Godinton Lane, Great Chart, TN23 3FZ

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:: Swinford Manor, Godinton Lane, Great Chart, TN23 3FZ

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

County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Hothfield
National Grid Reference:: TQ 97515 43725

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 December 2022 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 94 SE 15/13

HOTHFIELD GODINTON LANE Swinford Manor

(Formerly listed as SWINFORD Swinford Manor School)

II*

The centre portion is a late C15 to early C16 Wealden hall-house of two bays, which was a Dower House of Godinton. Timber-framed, refaced with red brick on the ground floor and tile-hung above. The first floor of its end window bays originally oversailed but has been underbuilt. The eaves between overhang on massive curved braces and a central bracket. Steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof with three gabled dormers. Casement windows. C19 porch with shaped Dutch gable containing a cartouche of the Toke family, formerly of Godinton.

The interior contains a moulded beam at the solar end of the hall and dragon beam. At the south end is a portion added in 1884 and at the north end a portion added in 1901. The east front also dates from the C19. This is faced with ashlar with five shaped Dutch gables; the window bay of the north gable projecting, of the south one deeply recessed and of the centre one projecting with a porch on the ground floor, seven windows.

Alfred Austin (1835-1913), who was Poet Laureate from 1896-1913, rented the house from the Toke family and occupied it from 1867 until his death on the 2nd June 1913. Several of his works refer to the house, particularly the prose work "The Garden that I Love" published in 1894.

Listing NGR: TQ9759643680

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Legacy System number:: 180994
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Austin, A, The Garden that I Love, (1894)

Legal

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