Court Lodge

COURT LODGE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1276825
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:
Court Lodge
Statutory Address:
COURT LODGE, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1276825
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1957
List Entry Name:
Court Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
COURT LODGE, THE STREET

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:
COURT LODGE, THE STREET

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

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Brook
National Grid Reference:
TR 06633 44231

Details

TR 04 SE BROOK THE STREET (East side)

4/59 Court Lodge 27.11.57

GV II*

House. C15 or earlier, restored 1911. Timber framed and tile hung, with some red brick and exposed frame to return and rear elevations. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with crosswings and extended service end. One storey and attic hall, with 2 storey wings, with jettied cross-hipped wing to right, and projecting gable and stepped-up gable from main ridge to left. Stacks to centre and to left, with central hipped dormer. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements and early C20 mullioned and transomed windows on ground floor. Panelled door with sidelights and flat hood to left. Left return with large C17 mullioned and transomed windows. Interior: in origin, a 2 bay hall with service bay and parlour crosswing, with C15 exterior kitchen (the remains, with smoke blackened rafters incorporated in left hand service wing), with jowls for 3 service doors from cross-passage. C16 or C17 kitchen with smoke bay at left (north) end of main range, possible reconstruction from C15 structure. Crown post roof to hall and heavily braced tie beam with no crown post to crosswing, also with dragon beam. Probably constructed (with the barn adjacent) by Christ Church priory, (Canterbury Cathedral), restored for File family c.1911. (See Traditional Kent Buildings, Vol. 5).

Listing NGR: TR0663544232

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
408365
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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