CONQUEST HOUSE

CONQUEST HOUSE, 17, PALACE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241437
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: CONQUEST HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CONQUEST HOUSE, 17, PALACE STREET

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Date:: 2002-08-31
Reference:: IOE01/08739/12
Rights:: © Mrs Diana Forrest. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241437
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: CONQUEST HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CONQUEST HOUSE, 17, PALACE STREET

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:: CONQUEST HOUSE, 17, PALACE STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Canterbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TR 14992 58064

Details

1. 944 PALACE STREET (West Side)

No 17 (Conquest House) TR 1458 SE 2/47 3.12.49.

II* GV

2. Outwardly a C16 timber-framed house restored, but the house dates from the early years of the Norman Conquest. 3 storeys timber-framed with plaster infill. Curved braces, Slated roofs. 3 restored mullioned and transomed windows, 1 of them a bay through 2 storeys supported on carved brackets. The ground floor has 2 recessed 3 light mullions and a continuous mullionedmd transomed bay of 8 lights. Right side doorcase has fine moulded spandrels. The interior has a C17 fireplace with plastered mantelpiece and panelling. Norman undercroft and fine Cll galleried hall. In 1170 the 4 knights De Tracy, De Moreville, Fitzurse and Le Breton divested themselves of their arms here before seeking an interview with Becket in his palace, and then rearmed themselves for the murder,

Church of St Alphege and Nos 10 to 28 (cobsec) form a group.

Listing NGR: TR1499058064

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 440503
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.