KENT HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1131093
Date first listed: 10-Jan-1953
Statutory Address: KENT HOUSE, 3, COUNTESS ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: KENT HOUSE, 3, COUNTESS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Amesbury
National Grid Reference: SU 15402 41723
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
AMESBURY COUNTESS ROAD
SU 1541
(west side)
11/27 No 3 (Kent House)
10.1.53
GV II*
Lodge to Amesbury Abbey and farmhouse for Park Farm, now house.
1607 and c1733. Flint with stone dressings, fissile stone slate
roofs. Irregular triangular block with an octagonal stair turret
on north-east side, and added on south, an C18 rectangular block in
knapped flintwork and stone. Original building has C18 stone
surround to ground floor window and a chamfered mullioned and
transomed cross window to upper floor. Moulded string courses and
lozenge panel. Moulded stone cornice and ogee roof. Stair tower
is of 3 storeys defined by string courses. Recessed reserved stone
surrounds to square windows. Stone cornice and ogee roof. Lozenge
on north-east face with date 1607. Added on south, a rectangular
block of 3 bays, ground floor raised, and stone plat band.
Architraves to windows and stepped flush keystones. Central 6-
panelled door with dentilled pediment on carved brackets. Block
extended to west at slight angle, with parapet. To rear, a single
storey block in matching squared knapped flintwork added c1960.
Listing NGR: SU1540241723
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 321338
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.
End of official listing