Northbourne Court and Walls Attached

MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237001
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Northbourne Court and Walls Attached
Statutory Address:
MILL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237001
Date first listed:
13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Northbourne Court and Walls Attached
Statutory Address 1:
MILL LANE
Statutory Address 2:
NORTHBOURNE COURT AND WALLS ATTACHED, NORTHBOURNE COURT

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MILL LANE
Statutory Address:
NORTHBOURNE COURT AND WALLS ATTACHED, NORTHBOURNE COURT

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

County:
Kent
District:
Dover (District Authority)
Parish:
Northbourne
National Grid Reference:
TR 33686 52236

Details

NORTHBOURNE NORTHBOURNE COURT TR 35 SW 4/26 Northbourne Court 13.10.52 and walls attached

GV II

House. Early and late C18 alteration of C17 core, altered and extended c.1930. Red brick and plain tiled roof, with flint and rubble in rear elevation. Two storeys and attic on plinth with plat band, cornice and parapet to hipped roof with stacks to left, to right and at end right. Four flat roofed dormers. Six segmentally headed wooden casements on first floor, and 2 casements to left and 3 French doors on ground floor, with 6 panelled doors to right the top 2 glazed and traceried with traceried semi- circular fanlight, in panelled and pilastered surround. Two storey canted bay on left return. Rear elevation with plinth, plat band and modillion eaves cornice and kneelered gabled projecting wings to left and right, and central 2 storey gabled stair turret with lozenge traceried windows. The projecting wing at left especially incorporates older flint and rubble walling. Interior: Ovolo moulded panelling and raised and fielded panelling in main rooms. Marble and painted neo-classical fire surrounds. C20 stair with turned balusters, wreathed and ramped handrail. Newel backstair. Elliptical pilaster screen to upper stair hall. Some exposed timber joists and early C18 doors. The interior generally reflects the various stages of building from the C17 to 1930s. Very extensive cellars. Walls, attached to left of house. C20 about 8 feet high, and stepped down at a pier, and terminated after about 20 metres by boarded gate and gate pier with terracotta vase finial. Wall to right, C18, red brick about 8 feet high, and incorporating 2 gate piers with fine stone vase finials. About 15 metres in length altogether and terminating at the Great Barn. The house is either on the site of part of the great mansion built c.1616 for Sir Edwin Sandys and demolished 1750, itself on the site of a grange of St. Augustine's Canterbury, or else a post 1750 adaptation of outbuildings associated with the house.

Listing NGR: TR3368652236

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
428140
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,

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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