Eythorne House

Eythorne House, Coldred Road, Eythorne, Dover, CT15 4BE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121932
Date first listed:
11-Oct-1963
List Entry Name:
Eythorne House
Statutory Address:
Eythorne House, Coldred Road, Eythorne, Dover, CT15 4BE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1121932
Date first listed:
11-Oct-1963
List Entry Name:
Eythorne House
Statutory Address 1:
Eythorne House, Coldred Road, Eythorne, Dover, CT15 4BE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
Eythorne House, Coldred Road, Eythorne, Dover, CT15 4BE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Dover (District Authority)
Parish:
Eythorne
National Grid Reference:
TR 28294 49039

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 April 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TR 24 NE
4/29

EYTHORNE
COLDRED ROAD (East Side)
Eythorne House

(Formerly listed as Eyethorne House)

11.10.63

GV
II
House. 1762 remodelling a house of c.1740 for Peter Fector, banker and merchant of Dover. Red brick and mathematical tiles with plain tiled roof. Twin span roof to two parallel ranges. Three storeys on plinth with parapet to hipped roof with stacks to left and to right. End left and end right window bays recessed slightly. Six square wooden casements on second floor, six glazing bar sashes on first floor and five on ground floor all with gauged heads with painted keystones. Moulded panelled door to centre right in segmentally headed stone surround with moulded base.

Interior: fielded panelling in downstairs and upstairs rooms and original stair with dado panelling. Plain marble fire places all reported. Hasted devotes a lengthy eulogy to the house, its site and its builder. At some time also the dower house to Betteshanger Court, and residence of Nico Llewellyn Davis, with his brothers the inspiration and dedicatee of Peter Pan.

(See Hasted, 1797, 63; see also Kent Life, May 1979, pp. 28 & 29).

Listing NGR: TR2829449039

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
177890
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1797), 63
Kent Life in May, (1979), 28 29

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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