Updown House and Attached Outbuildings
UPDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, UPDOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264327
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Updown House and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- UPDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, UPDOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264327
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Updown House and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, UPDOWN
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:
- UPDOWN HOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, UPDOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TR3141653401
Details
TR 35 SW
4/48
11.10.63
NORTHBOURNE
UPDOWN
Updown House and attached outbuildings
GV
II
House. Early C18, remodelled c.1786. Rendered with slate roof. Main
elevation of 3 storeys on plinth with cornice and parapet supported by
pilaster quoins. Stacks at end left and at end right. Regular fenestration
of 3 half-sized glazing bar sashes on second floor, 3 full sized on first
floor and 2 on ground floor, all with louvred shutters. Central window
in elliptically arched recess, with segmental pediments over first floor
windows to left and to right. Central Doric porch with coupled columns and
cast iron balcony. Half-glazed doors with Chinoiserie style tracery.
Recessed wing to right, 2 storeys and attic, with parapet to mansard roof
and flat roof dormer, and 1 shuttered glazing bar sash on each floor in
elliptically headed recess, the upper window with a pediment over. Stair
turret on left return, with 1 glazing bar sash on ground and first floor and
blank roundel above, with heavy cornice and frieze on giant pilaster quoins.
Rear wing with kneelered parapet gable. Interior. moulded ceiling joists
and inglenooks survive from early C18. Pillared staircase hall and plain
bolection moulded marble fireplaces survive -from later C18. Originally
fitted up as Gentleman's seat by Captain Thomas Fagg of Dover before 1748,
sold to and improved by Matthew Colet Esq. before 1777, and largely given
present form by John Minet Fectorof Dover c.1786, who also emparked
the surrounding land. (See Hasted,X, 1800, p.41-42). Used as Dower
House to Northbourne Court (Igglesden,XIX, 1926, p.79).
Listing NGR: TR3141653401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428162
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1800), 41-42
Igglesden, C, Saunter through Kent with pen and pencil, (1926), 79
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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