Copton Manor
COPTON MANOR, ASHFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1372896
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Copton Manor
- Statutory Address:
- COPTON MANOR, ASHFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1372896
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Copton Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- COPTON MANOR, ASHFORD 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:
- COPTON MANOR, ASHFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheldwich
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 01706 59022
Details
TR 05 NW SHELDWICH ASHFORD ROAD (east side) North Street
1/66 Copton Manor 24.1.67 GV I
Manor house. Circa 1300, remodelled and extended C18 and mid C19. Flint and rubble stone, rendered, with plain tiled roofs. Hall house with 2 storey chamber block and offset wing (bailiffs quarters). C19 ballroom added to chamber block. Entrance front: 2 storeys and attic with tall hipped roof. Three gabled dormers and stacks to rear left, centre and right. Three glazing bar sashes on first floor, 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor. Offcentre door of panels, the top 2 glazed, with semi-circular fanlight and flat hood on pilasters. Two storey half-octagonal bay windows to left, with glazing bar sashes, and 1 storey extension to right with 2 sashes. The whole front is slightly asymmetrical. Left return: 2 storeys, the upper storey breaking eaves line. Large hipped roof with gablet, stacks to left, centre anti right. Two glazing bar sashes first floor, 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor. Blocked screens passage entry to centre left. Small C19 porch (blocked) in re-entrant with cross wing to right. Bailiffs quarters: (now a potting shed) to left. Now detached, but originally built into left end wall, the stone gable still stands, projecting from the main line of the range. The rest of the range is of painted brick, 2 storeys, with 1 casement window and boarded door on ground floor. Rear:weatherboarded external staircase with bell-pull, built for the use of farmhands to reach attic accommodation in main range. Ogee-headed 2 light window on rear wall, originally with some tracery. Interior: entirely preserved despite the later alterations and additions are 3 scissor braced roofs over the 3 ranges (chamber block, hall, with smoke-blackening, and bailiffs quarters- this with added tie-beams). Pointed chamfered doorways and blocked windows in various positions. Few other interior features - the hall roof is of very good quality work. Mason's marks associated with Canterbury Cathedral 1166-1220, although the ogee-headed windows suggest an early C14 date. (See Traditional Kent Buildings, no.1, 1984, pp 16-21, plans and elevations).
Listing NGR: TR0170659022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176864
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Traditional Kent Buildings in Traditional Kent Buildings, Vol. 1, (1984), 16-21
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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