Great Dowles
GREAT DOWLES, STONE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241930
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Great Dowles
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT DOWLES, STONE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241930
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Great Dowles
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT DOWLES, STONE STREET
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:
- GREAT DOWLES, STONE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 12994 45978
Details
TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD STONE STREET (West-side)
1/124 Great Dowles 29.12.66 (Formerly listed as Great Dowles Farmhouse)
II
Farmhouse, now house. C18. Red brick in Flemish bond to front elevation. Gable ends and rear in English bond. Plain tile roof. Double depth. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Chamfered brick plinth. Rubbed brick plat band, interrupted over door. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched hipped roof, hips returning to rear. Rear stacks to left and right. Two nine-pane dormers with hipped plain-tile roofs. Regular 5-window front of twelve-pane sashes with thin glazing bars, in open boxes. Similar but longer windows to ground floor, with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Central door of six fielded panels, with decorative rectangular fanlight and flat corniced and bracketed hood. Fire Insurance plaque. Interior: staircase with slender turned balusters and shaped handrail. Ovolo-moulded axial beam with panelled soffit to left ground-floor room, and similar cross beam to rear left room. Chamfered axial beam to right ground-floor room and boxed axial beam to rear. Painted brick fireplace with bressumer to front right room. Staggered butt purlin roof. Panelled doors.
Listing NGR: TR1299445978
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441217
- 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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