HOME FARMHOUSE , GARDEN COTTAGE, WALLED GARDENS AND STABLE RANGE

GARDEN COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237097
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: HOME FARMHOUSE , GARDEN COTTAGE, WALLED GARDENS AND STABLE RANGE
Statutory Address:: GARDEN COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237097
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: HOME FARMHOUSE , GARDEN COTTAGE, WALLED GARDENS AND STABLE RANGE
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:: HOME FARMHOUSE, BETTESHANGER
Statutory Address 3:: STABLE RANGE
Statutory Address 4:: WALLED GARDENS

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GARDEN COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: HOME FARMHOUSE, BETTESHANGER
Statutory Address:: STABLE RANGE
Statutory Address:: WALLED GARDENS

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:: TR3123952623

Details

In the entry for :- TR 35 SW 4/8

NORTHBOURNE BETTERSHANGER Home Farmhouse, Garden Cottage, Walled gardens and Stable range, Betteshanger

The description shall be amended to read.

Houses and Walled garden complex. Mid C19, probably by George Devey for Sir Walter James. The whole complex built of brown brick, the houses with some diapered brickwork and plain tiled roofs. Two storeys. Coachman's house has two bays and central entrance. Plank door with Caernarvon arch. 4 light mullion and transom windows below, 3 light above. Paved diagonal stacks on rear wall, projecting 2 storey wing. Garden house 3 bays with central 2 storey porch into sloped gable. Small paved casements, half domes above. Gabled stacks. Rear elevation with 3 gabled dormers, and flanking outshuts containing boarded doors and cross windows on ground floor, this is the present entrance front. Walled gardens in 2 great courts, about 100 metres by 25 metres each, the walls about 8 feet high of brown brick, with four centred arched openings, elaborate gateway with swan neck pediment towards house. The south-eastern stretch of wall forms part of the decorative approach around Betteshanger Church (St Mary) and has a range of pilaster-strip buttresses raised above the wall to form piers for an iron railing, with four-centred arched doorways, and large buttress supporting a large sundial dated 1895 inscribed in Latin and with astronomical signs. Partly ruined glass houses within the walled gardens. Smithy of 1 storey, slated roof, with mullioned windows, and large entrance porch with segmental head, ball finial side piers, and large horse-shoe shaped entry. The left end bay with parapet roof at higher level to main range, with corner pilasters raised above parapet level.

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TR 35 SW 4/8

NORTHBOURNE BETTESHANGER

Home Farmhouse, Garden cottage, walled gardens and stable range, Betteshanger

GV II

Farm and garden complex. Mid C19, probably by George Devey for Sir Walter James. The whole complex built of brown brick, the houses with some diapered brickwork and plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with projecting shaped gabled 2 storey porch. Stacks to left and to right. Three window bays with cross windows. Rear elevation with 3 gabled dormers, and flanking outshots containing boarded doors, and cross windows on ground floor; this is the present entrance front. Garden cottage within the walled gardens to same designs. Walled gardens in 2 great courts, about 100 metres by 25 metres each, the walls about 8 feet high of brown brick, with four centred arched openings. The south-eastern stretch of wall forms part of the decorative approach around Betteshanger Church (St. Mary) and has a range of pilaster-strip buttresses raised above the wall to form piers for an iron railing, with four-centred arched doorways, and large buttress supporting a large sundial dated 1895 inscribed in Latin and with astronomical signs. Partly ruined glasshouses within the walled gardens. Stable range of 1 storey, slated roof , with mullioned windows, and large entrance porch with segmental head, ball finial side piers, and large horse-shoe shaped entry. The left end bay with parapet roof at higher level to main range, with corner pilasters raised above parapet level.

Listing NGR: TR3123952623

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 428122
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.