Wickhurst

WICKHURST, KINGS AVENUE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263914
Date first listed:
24-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Wickhurst
Statutory Address:
WICKHURST, KINGS AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1263914
Date first listed:
24-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Wickhurst
Statutory Address 1:
WICKHURST, KINGS AVENUE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WICKHURST, KINGS AVENUE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Dover (District Authority)
Parish:
Worth
National Grid Reference:
TR3596357526

Details

WORTH KING'S AVENUE TR 35 NE (North side)

Sandwich Bay

2/152 Wickhurst

II

House. Early C20. Painted brick with grey pantiled roof. Cape Dutch style. Two storeys with box eaves to roofwith stepped shaped gables and stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 4 metal casements on each floor with shutters, with small casements to centre left and centre right on each floor, in round headed recesses on ground floor. Central door of 3 moulded panels, with fretwork spy-hole, and flat hood on enriched brackets with central monkish corbel. Projecting single storey hipped wings to left and right, part of garage court at left, with a returned single storey wing extension from main range. The wing to right has glazed french doors and metal casements. Front garden enclosed by painted wall about about 6 feet high with pantiled coping, with central hipped gateway, with keyed semi- circular gateway with wrought iron gate and overthrow, the walls sweep forward to join to the end of the side walls projecting from the side wings. Interior: with beamed ceilings and original fittings. M.H. Baillie-Scott designed in this style, but the documented house by him at Sandwich Bay is destroyed. (Four winds, 1929 for Lady Pearson) Architect unknown.

Listing NGR: TR3590457349

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
429228
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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