Jacques Court
JACQUES COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262954
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Jacques Court
- Statutory Address:
- JACQUES COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262954
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Jacques Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- JACQUES COURT
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:
- JACQUES COURT
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 17393 46294
Details
TR 14 NE ELHAM BLADBEAN
2/19 Jacques Court
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. C17, with late C18 and C19 facade and later alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond, first floor pebbledashed, with applied studding. First floor of left rear return wing and rear tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Central- entry L-plan. 3 timber-framed bays to front range, that to centre shorter, and three to rear wing. C20 single-bay addition in a similar style, to right end, and returning along the rear. 2 storeys, attics and cellar. Shallow continuous jetty. Hipped roof, hips returning to rear. Rear wing roof hipped to rear. Brick stack to junction of front range and left wing, and ridge stack towards right end of front range. Two gabled dormers with two-light casements. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements; one three-light to left, one pair of two-light to centre, one three-light to right, and one small four-light to right end. Three small two-light casements to left return. Panelled door to left of centre (to left end of central bay of C17 front range), behind brick porch with gabled plain tile roof. Interior: Front range has chamfered axial beams to each floor. Ogee chamfer -stops with cut- back, to beams, principal posts and wall-plates. Rear wall of central and right bays on first floor framed with broadly-spaced studding, two panels to storey, with brick infilling and herringbone top courses. Tension-braced stud partition. Gunstock-jowled posts. Partly-ceiled clasped-purlin roof. Brick fireplace with angled back and cambered bressumer to right end of right C17 bay. Scratch date DR 1637 on a beam re-used (in C20?) as bressumer of left ground-floor fireplace. Rear wing has more plainly chamfered axial beams, large fireplace with wooden bressumer to stack adjoining front range on ground floor, and roof of aligned butt purlins incorporating some re-used timber. Evidence for doorways in C17 front range, to rear of central bay on both floors and to rear of right bay on first floor, probably indicating a former stair turret in angle between front range and wing. Edge-halved wall- plate scarf joint.
Listing NGR: TR1739346294
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433598
- 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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