The Gatekeeper
The Gatekeeper, Canterbury Road, Etchinghill, Folkestone, CT18 8DE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242038
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatekeeper
- Statutory Address:
- The Gatekeeper, Canterbury Road, Etchinghill, Folkestone, CT18 8DE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242038
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatekeeper
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Gatekeeper, Canterbury Road, Etchinghill, Folkestone, CT18 8DE
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 Gatekeeper, Canterbury Road, Etchinghill, Folkestone, CT18 8DE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyminge
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 16655 39555
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 March 2025 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TR 13 NE
6/148
LYMINGE
Etchinghill
CANTERBURY ROAD (north-east side)
The Gatekeeper
(Formerly listed as The New Inn)
GV
II
Public house. Early C17, with late C18 or early C19 addition to right, and later alterations. Timber framed. Painted brick to ground floor. Exposed framing with part herringbone, part coursed brick infilling to first floor. Right addition painted brick. Painted stone to ground floor of right return. Plain tile roof.
Lobby-entry plan of two timber-framed bays and central stack bay. Two storeys. Pair of tension braces, and intermediate studs, to each outer bay. Steeply pitched roof, hipped to left with gablet, gabled to right. Multiple brick ridge stack towards centre, and gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of three casements; one two-light casement to each outer bay, and one single-light under stack. Half-glazed door with flat corniced and bracketed hood under stack. Right addition two storeys, roof hipped to right, with slightly higher eaves and lower ridge than main range. Irregular fenestration of two sixteen-pane sashes, with segmental heads. Canted bay to ground floor, with half-glazed door towards right end. Rear lean-to to main range. Short rear return wing to right.
Interior: only partly inspected. Chamfered axial beam to right ground-floor room of main range. Possible evidence for continuous jetty. Elliptical brick fireplace with niches and wooden bressumer, to right side of stack.
Listing NGR: TR1665539555
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441375
- 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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