TUNSTALL COURT

TUNSTALL COURT, GORE COURT ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344266
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: TUNSTALL COURT
Statutory Address:: TUNSTALL COURT, GORE COURT ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1344266
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: TUNSTALL COURT
Statutory Address 1:: TUNSTALL COURT, GORE COURT 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:: TUNSTALL COURT, GORE COURT ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Swale (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 89974 62770

Details

SITTINGBOURNE TQ 86 SE GORE COURT ROAD 8/160 II Tunstall Court

Large house, latterly in use for educational purposes. Designed by Walter Brierley of York in 1914 in Neo-Queen Anne style. Built of red brick in English bond with brick dressings stone doorcase and hipped plain tiled roof with 2 massive panelled brick chimney-stacks. 2 storeys and attics, irregular fenestration. North of entrance front has 2 hipped end projections. Centre has 2 hipped dormers with leaded lights. Below are 5 windows including 3 casements, the ground floor ones with brick relieving arches and 2 tall 18 pane sashes with horns spanning both floors. Central stone doorcase with pediment and eaved architrave with date 1914 in centre. Wooden 3 panelled door with cross shape to lowest panel. Right hand side has plain 1/2 glazed door: left end projection has oval blank to first floor and 2 6-pane sashes curved top and bottom to ground floor. South or garden front has 2 projecting hipped gables linked by curved wooden portico with 2 Tuscan columns and 2 pilasters and elaborate balustrade forming balcony above. 5 windows. First floor windows mainly 12 pane sashes with horns and thick glazing bars and wooden jalousies apart from central French windows. End quoins and bond between floors. Ground floor windows are 15 pane sashes with horns and jalousies. To left and right of hipped projections there is one further 6 pane sash with cambered head. Section of brick walling to right hand side leads to integral. 1 storey brick garage with hipped tiled roof; 1 6 pane sash curved at top and bottom and wooden double doors.

Listing NGR: TQ8997462770

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Legacy System number:: 175811
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.