Eastry Court

Eastry Court, Church Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1366610
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: Eastry Court
Statutory Address:: Eastry Court, Church Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1366610
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: Eastry Court
Statutory Address 1:: Eastry Court, Church Street

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:: Eastry Court, Church Street

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 31125 54816

Details

TR 3154 13/119

EASTRY CHURCH STREET(east side) Eastry Court

13.10.52

GV I House, site of Archiepiscopal palace. C14 or earlier, C16 and early C18, for Isaac Bargrave. Flint and rubble, timber framed, rendered and clad and extended in red brick. Plain tiled roofs.

Ten bay early C18 front to aisled or semi-aisled hall with remains of chapel and domestic wings to rear. Two storeys on plinth with sunk panelled parapet to hipped roof with stacks to left and to rear right. Ten glazing bar sashes on first floor, that in fifth bay from right with segmental frame, and nine on ground floor, all with gauged heads, flying cornices, and sunk panels below first floor windows. Door of six raised and fielded panels in fifth bay from right in enriched bolection moulded frame with rectangular fanlight, fluted Ionic pilasters and cornice.

Rear wings; rear left timber framed, originally jettied range, plastered. Rear right, ground floor only of chapel, with lower half of east window.

Interior; C18 range with raised and fielded panelled room with dado rails and moulded cornices, elliptical arches to passageways, single flight stair with swept panelled dado/baluster as part of wall. Parallel range to front apparently a semi-aisled hall, with large arcade posts surviving and a possible raised cruck on first floor, all of large scantling. Large inglenook fireplaces, in English Bond, partly blocked. Stone chamfered window surrounds in rear wings.

Clasped purlin roofs, much altered in parts, with brick chamfered four centred arched fireplace in attic. Cellars with coursed chalk blocks below what appear to be medieval foundations, may relate to pre-Conquest Kentish Royal palace on site.

The interior history of the building, complex already, is obscured by C19 and C20 partitions in process of restoration at time of survey.

Listing NGR: TR3112354813

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 178150
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1800), 104
Igglesden, C, Saunter through Kent with pen and pencil, (1906), 55
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 308
'Archaeologia Cantiana' in Archaeologia Cantiana, , Vol. 48, (1982)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.