CLAIRE VOYEE ABOUT 76 METRES SOUTH OF PORT LYMPNE

CLAIRE VOYEE ABOUT 76 METRES SOUTH OF PORT LYMPNE, ALDINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344208
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CLAIRE VOYEE ABOUT 76 METRES SOUTH OF PORT LYMPNE
Statutory Address:: CLAIRE VOYEE ABOUT 76 METRES SOUTH OF PORT LYMPNE, ALDINGTON ROAD

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Date:: 2002-10-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344208
Date first listed:: 29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:: CLAIRE VOYEE ABOUT 76 METRES SOUTH OF PORT LYMPNE
Statutory Address 1:: CLAIRE VOYEE ABOUT 76 METRES SOUTH OF PORT LYMPNE, ALDINGTON ROAD

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:: CLAIRE VOYEE ABOUT 76 METRES SOUTH OF PORT LYMPNE, 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 10254 34901

Details

TR 13 SW LYMPNE ALDINGTON ROAD (South side)

6/10 "Claire-voyée" about 76 metres 29.12.66 south of Port Lympne.

GV II

"Claire-voyée". Circa 1920, probably by Philip Tilden, for Sir Philip Sassoon. Red brick in Flemish bond. Platform built into hillside with 3-bay loggia under centre of it. Brick steps lead down from right and left ends of platform against retaining wall. Scrolled wrought iron work with rose and fleur-de-lys finials, to platform. Round-headed arches to loggia with thin red tile band across arch heads, and keystone to central arch. Ribless quadripartite brick vault and shallow wall arcading. Floor laid with herringboned tiles in octagonal patterns. Semi-circular rear recess to central bay, with shell roof in herringboned tiles. Narrow tessellated brick terrace in front of loggia between feet of steps from platform. See also item 3 & 6/8 (Country Life Vol. LIII, 19.5.1923).

Listing NGR: TR1061635255

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Legacy System number:: 175586
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 19 May, , Vol. 53, (1923)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,

Legal

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