The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, VICARAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241652
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, VICARAGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241652
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, VICARAGE 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:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, VICARAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 17691 43712
Details
TR 1643-1743 ELHAM VICARAGE LANE (south side)
9/90 The Old Vicarage 29.12.66 (formerly listed as The Vicarage
GV II
Vicarage, now house. C17 and early C18, altered in early C20 by F.C. Eden and the Rev. A.C. de Bourbel. Painted pebbledash to front elevation. Left gable end and rear red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. C17 section, with parallel rear range of probably slightly later date. Double-depth C18 addition to left. Facade and internal work by Eden. 2 storeys. Stone plinth to rear of right section. Pentice with plain tile roof and coved rendered soffit to length of front elevation. Modillioned wooden eaves cornice. Hipped roof, hips returning to rear. Two rear hips to left section and two to right. Two slightly-projecting gable-end stacks to left. Corniced rear stack to left of centre, between the two rear sections. Rear elevation of left section has two twenty- pane first-floor sashes and three eighteen-pane ground-floor sashes, all with thick glazing-bars. Right section has three three-light first-floor casements. Irreqular fenestration of 8 leaded casements to front; two two-light to left, and six cross windows between rear stack and right end. Seven leaded cross windows to ground floor. Lower half of each ground-floor window has shutters incised with a bulbous motif. Door, under third first-floor window from right, has beaded ogee-eared panels. Red and grey brick lean-to to right with large corniced red brick stack. Interior: Only partly inspected. Front range of both sections formed by Eden into long hall with room at each end. Smaller rooms to rear ranges. Two cross beams towards right end, with axial beam between them. Shallow canted lateral fireplace faced with Dutch tiles and with unbracketed, corniced Continental-style wooden hood. Dutch skirting tiles. Black and white marble floor (said to have been laid by an Italian craftsman). Rear left room has bolection-moulded fireplace with raised moulded panel to overmantle, and fielded panels to door and window shutters. Central rear room has left end fireplace with shallow progressively-raised surround. Early C20 panelling in shallow relief to rest of wall, with round-headed panels to cupboard doors. Similarly-panelled ground-floor doors. Said to have a "good staircase". Craftsmanship of high quality.
Listing NGR: TR1768943714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440607
- 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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