SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS

SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS, CAMBRIDGE AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263942
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS
Statutory Address:: SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS, CAMBRIDGE AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263942
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS
Statutory Address 1:: SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS, CAMBRIDGE AVENUE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS, CAMBRIDGE 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:: TR 36551 57025

Details

In the entry for: WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE (south side) Sandilands and The Backs 2/139

The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read:

"House, now subdivided, one part a private house the other a residential house"

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WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE TR 35 NE (South side)

2/139 Sandilands and The Backs

II

House, now residential home. Circa 1930 for Lord Vestey, by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Red brick in English Bond with plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan with bowed re-entrant. Two storeys and attic on basement with plinth and moulded cornice to hipped roof with 3 flat roofed dormers and stacks to left and to right, at right angles to each other, and to rear. Projecting 4 bay centre piece with giant pilasters. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor, 4 on ground floor, the centre and outer windows with keyed heads. Central double 4-panelled doors with rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave and flying cornice and 8 moulded steps. Regular fenestration of glazing bar sashes throughout rear and return elevations. Wall extending to north of main house about 6 feet high, enclosing The Backs, originally the service wing to house of one storey and attic, with hipped roof, 3 flat roofed dormers and canted bay to right with central glazed door. Interior: heavy bolection moulded panelling in some rooms, moulded skirting and cornices throughout. Oval rooms in re-entrant, with enriched lugged fireplaces. Staircase hall, with small panel wainscotting, triple round headed arcade on one wall, making 2 doorways and central recessed shell headed niche. Open well stair with ramped moulded rail and turned balusters. The panelling in this hall is reputed to have come from a Chateau owned by Lord Vestey in the Loire, and some 200 years old.

Listing NGR: TR3655157025

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Legacy System number:: 429079
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.