GARDEN WALLS AT NORTHBOURNE COURT

GARDEN WALLS AT NORTHBOURNE COURT, NORTHBOURNE COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237003
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALLS AT NORTHBOURNE COURT
Statutory Address:: GARDEN WALLS AT NORTHBOURNE COURT, NORTHBOURNE COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237003
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALLS AT NORTHBOURNE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN WALLS AT NORTHBOURNE COURT, NORTHBOURNE COURT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: GARDEN WALLS AT NORTHBOURNE COURT, 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 33700 52184

Details

NORTHBOURNE NORTHBOURNE COURT TR 35 SW

4/29 Garden Walls at Northbourne Court 13.10.52

GV II*

Walled gardens. Circa 1616 for Sir Edwin Sandys, and incorporating various sections dating from C13 to late C20 repairs. Red brick, with some flint. The outer wall is over half a mile long from north-west to south-east, and the walled enclosures about 500 metres from south-west to north-east. There are 3 main enclosures, each subdivided within themselves. The walls of the outer court are about 10 feet high, in irregular English bond, with much restored dogtooth cornice and coping. The north-west wall has a C19 wrought iron gate between 2 piers, the main entrance is on the long south- western wall. Segmental ramps support a raised cornice over a rusticated stone carriage arch, with imposts, keystone and cornice. C19 wrought iron gates. The north-western walls are largely of flint, incorporating lesser gateways. The main garden feature is the mount, actually a series of 3 terraces, the lowest 2 brought forward within a walled enclosure to form side terraces. The terraces are all retained by massive brick walls, about 30 feet high at maximum. At the eastern end of this courtyard are flint ruins either of a chapel belonging to the monastic grange on this site, or of the mansion house of Sir Edwin Sandys. C18 plaques on the walls record poems tending to the former view. Outhouses included with the walls include a range of C19 stables in the courtyard to rear of Northbourne Court, with half-hipped pantiled roof, 2 raking loft doors and 6 half-doors. Also a small half-hipped outhouse opposite the stables (item 4/30 ), with a single boarded door, and cornice to roof with stack projecting to end left. The position of the monastic grange and later mansion house within the walled enclosures is not clear, although the present Northbourne Court probably occupies part of the site, the ruins and excavated sections within the mount-court suggest the house extended onto this. The mount is one of the finest surviving features of this type of this date in the country (See Country Life, LVII, 954 and CXXVIII, 278. See also B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 407).

Listing NGR: TR3296653033

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Legacy System number:: 428143
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 407
'Country Life' in 13 June, (1925)
'Country Life' in 11 August, , Vol. 128, (1960), 407
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.