Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor
WHEEL HOUSE AND DONKEY WHEEL AT EGGARTON MANOR, EGGARTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362786
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WHEEL HOUSE AND DONKEY WHEEL AT EGGARTON MANOR, EGGARTON LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362786
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at Eggarton Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEEL HOUSE AND DONKEY WHEEL AT EGGARTON MANOR, EGGARTON LANE
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:
- WHEEL HOUSE AND DONKEY WHEEL AT EGGARTON MANOR, EGGARTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Godmersham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 07857 50448
Details
TR 05 SE GODMERSHAM EGGARTON LANE (east side)
4/44 Wheel House and Donkey Wheel at 27.11.57 Eggarton Manor
II
Wheelhouse. C17 and C18. Timber framed and clad in red brick flint and weatherboard and part rebuilt in red brick. Plain tile roof. One storey on plinth, with partial dogtooth cornice to hipped roof with gablets. Interior: Donkey wheel. Original shaft with wide chamfers and ogee stops; wheel spokes with thin chamfers and run out stops. Shaft and wheel house structurally interdependant and therefore contemporary. Roof with arched braces, collars, clasped purlins, diminishing principles and windbraces. (see Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Report, 1975, November).
Listing NGR: TR0754050619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Report in Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Report, (1975)
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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