GATE HOUSES AND GATEWAY TO CHILHAM CASTLE

GATE HOUSES AND GATEWAY TO CHILHAM CASTLE, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362754
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSES AND GATEWAY TO CHILHAM CASTLE
Statutory Address:: GATE HOUSES AND GATEWAY TO CHILHAM CASTLE, THE SQUARE

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Date:: 2002-10-24
Reference:: IOE01/08990/11
Rights:: © Mrs Jean Foreman. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362754
Date first listed:: 13-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: GATE HOUSES AND GATEWAY TO CHILHAM CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE HOUSES AND GATEWAY TO CHILHAM CASTLE, THE SQUARE

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:: GATE HOUSES AND GATEWAY TO CHILHAM CASTLE, THE SQUARE

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County:: Kent
District:: Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:: Chilham
National Grid Reference:: TR 06790 53577

Details

TR 0653-0753 CHILHAM THE SQUARE (south-west side) 7/30 Gate Houses and gateway to Chilham Castle

GV II

Gate houses and gateway. Circa 1922. Sir Herbert Baker. Two identical gate houses. Red brick, ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Two storeys on plinth, moulded stone cornice to ground floor, plat band to first floor and gable with ball finials, and ashlar quoins. 3 light stone mullion window on first floor, 4 light stone mullion on ground floor. Entrance in side front (within gates). Each gatehouse with brick wall 10 feet to gate, with plank door in 4 centred arched opening, to brick gate pier on weathered stone plinth surmounted by large stone urn; the cornice from the the house carried over both wall and gate pier. Gates:heavy solid boarding with spearheaded spikes along ridge. Walls:attached to left and right of gatehouses, 7 feet high, 7 feet in length, with coping tiles to right hand section, oversailing brick courses on left hand section.

Listing NGR: TR0678953580

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Legacy System number:: 181490
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.