Wittersham House
Wittersham House, 28, The Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120832
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wittersham House
- Statutory Address:
- Wittersham House, 28, The Street
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09229/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120832
- Date first listed:
- 16-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wittersham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wittersham House, 28, 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:
- Wittersham House, 28, The Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wittersham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 89758 27086
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 September 2021 to reformat text to current standards
TQ 8927
21/456
WITTERSHAM
THE STREET (north-west side)
No 28 (Wittersham House)
16.8.62.
II
The interior dates partly from the early C19, but the exterior of the house was rebuilt by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1907 for the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, athlete and politician. It is a nearly square building of red brick. Two storeys and attics with a hipped pantiled roof, stringcourse and wide eaves cornice. The entrance front faces north-east. Seven windows and two dormers. The centre portion of three windows projects with a recessed portico to its ground floor consisting of two pairs of pilasters, and a pediment above the eaves containing a Venetian attic window in its tympanum. The south-east front has nine windows, three of them being circular. The entrance to the carriage drive is flanked by red brick gate piers surmounted by stone cornices, and ball caps on pedestals, and set in a low curved wall with three lower brick piers standing on the wall on each side, all surmounted by ball caps, and with an iron railing between these lower piers.
During the Second World War the house was visited by Sir Winston Churchill, Viscount Montgomery and King George VI.
Listing NGR: TQ8975827090
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 180496
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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