Heronden
HERONDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363272
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Heronden
- Statutory Address:
- HERONDEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1363272
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Heronden
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERONDEN
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:
- HERONDEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eastry
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 29560 54265
Details
TR 25 SE EASTRY HERONDEN
7/135 Heronden 11.10.63 GV II*
House. 1766 for William Kelly, extended c.1930 and altered c. 1970 by Phillip Jebb. Plum coloured brick with red brick dressings with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic on plinth with moulded plat band and moulded modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with 3 flat roofed dormers, and large moulded stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 5 glazing bar sashes on first floor and 4 on ground floor with gauged heads. Central door of 6 panels in panelled surround with traceried semi-circular fanlight, pilasters, triglyph frieze and pilasters, triglyph frieze and pediment. Garden room c.1930 to right with 4 Doric pilasters supporting modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof. Two large glazing bar sashes and central double French windows. Interior; staircase, dog-leg and half landing with winders, with turned balusters with square base knops on open bracketed string with wreathed handrail and ramped dado panelling. Panelled room with fluted frieze and modillion cornice, late C17 in date and here reset. Dining room with 2 moulded alcoves either side of marble fireplace, with moulded frieze and - other late C18 details. From 1784 to 1794 the home of Captain John Harvey, mayor of Sandwich 1774,and hero of the Battle of Ushant, 1.st June 1794 as commemorated in Eastry church and Westminster Abbey (monuments by John Bacon) (See Country Life, August 11 and August 18, 1960;see also B.0.E. Kent II, 1983 pp.308-9; also Hasted, X,107-111).
Listing NGR: TR2955654268
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178166
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1800), 107-111
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 308-9
Country Life in 11 August, (1960)
Country Life in 18 August, (1960)
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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