French House
FRENCH HOUSE, ALDINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344206
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- French House
- Statutory Address:
- FRENCH HOUSE, ALDINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344206
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- French House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRENCH HOUSE, ALDINGTON ROAD
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:
- FRENCH HOUSE, ALDINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lympne
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 11232 34709
Details
TR 13 SW LYMPNE ALDINGTON ROAD (South Side)
6/5 French House 29.12.66 II*
House. C15 or early C16. Restored circa 1930 by H. Charlton Bradshaw for Sir Philip Sassoon. Further restoration 1953 and 1985. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with two roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Broadly-spaced close-studding. Tension braces to first floor of left end bay. Arch braces to flying wall-plate. Later brace to central tie-beams. Left end bay jettied to front, to gable end and to rear on moulded dragon posts. Right end bay jettied to front and gable end on plain dragon post. Hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack to junction of hall and left end bay. Projecting stone stack, with brick dressings and diagonally-set brick flues, to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded casements; one 4-light wood mullion window to left end bay, one broad 2-light window to left hall bay (above a 3-light ground-floor metal casement), and one 2-light casement to right end bay. Leaded French doors with 4-centred-arched wooden architrave to right end of right hall bay. Ribbed door with similar architrave to rear of left end of left hall bay. Long rear wing to right of circa 1930, with stone ground floor, timber framed first flour and plain tile roof. Interior not inspected. Said to have slipped several feet during landslide in 1730s.
Listing NGR: TR1123234709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175581
- 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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