Finchden Manor
FINCHDEN MANOR, APPLEDORE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363181
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Finchden Manor
- Statutory Address:
- FINCHDEN MANOR, APPLEDORE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363181
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Finchden Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- FINCHDEN MANOR, APPLEDORE 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:
- FINCHDEN MANOR, APPLEDORE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tenterden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 90079 33127
Details
1. 1715 APPLEDORE ROAD (North East Side)
Finchden Manor TQ 93 SW 6/140 8.5.50.
II* GV
2. A large C16 timber-framed house with modern additions at the north west end. Sir Thomas More, when Lord Chancellor of England, was reported to have visited the house. In the C19 it was occupied as a Benedictine Priory but it is now a school. The lower half of the ground floor of the south west front facing the garden is of red brick and grey headers. Above it is plastered and painted black and white in imitation of timbering. 3 storeys, having 3 projecting gables with bressumers and one dormer and 6 bay windows below the gables. 2 storey projecting porch with gable, its 1st floor coved. To the north west of the porch are 2 further bays without gables, one of them coved similarly to the porch. One of these bays has the date 1658 on it, which probably refers to an alteration. Casement windows. The garden elevation is mainly brick fronted. The roof has a massive brick chimney stack and hipped gables, 2 of which have fretted bargeboards. The right side gable has a bressumer with strapwork designs and some fine C17 grotesque brackets. Lion head waterspouts, and rain water heads. The central portion has 3 hipped gables with 4 female grotesque brackets. The left side gable has exposed close-studded timbering. The interior has a C17 staircase with balusters.
Finchden Manor, with gatepiers and zarden wall and stables, and Mavnards Farmhouse with Priory Farmhouse (on south-west side of Appledore Road), form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9007933127
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179660
- 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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