Canon House Canon Villa
CANON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203698
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Canon House Canon Villa
- Statutory Address:
- CANON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203698
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Canon House Canon Villa
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- CANON VILLA, SCHOOL LANE
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:
- CANON HOUSE, SCHOOL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- CANON VILLA, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 24255 57298
Details
TR 2457 WINGHAM SCHOOL LANE (East Side)
9/346 Canon House and Canon Villa 11.10.63 II
House pair. C16, possibly earlier, part refronted c.1830. Timber framed with exposed close studding with plaster infill, part fronted with painted brick. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic with continuous jetty and hipped roof with gablets, 4 gabled dormers and stacks to centre, centre right and 2 projecting at end right. Three round headed sashes to left on each floor, and 3 wooden casements to right on first floor, 2 on ground floor with rib and stud door in four centred arched surround to centre rignt. Rear courtyard wings in part framed, part of painted brick, and including as one section strip windows as of a workshop. Interior: roof with 4 plain crown-posts, 2 to south (left) probably earlier than C16 crown-posts to right. Later framed cross-wing. The house was probably part of Wingham College, and survived a fire of 1660 which destroyed most of the college buildings south of "Canon's Row" on the main road.
Listing NGR: TR2425557298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178378
- 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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