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Forecourt Garden and Stable Walls to Knowlton Court

A Grade II Listed Building in Goodnestone, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2335 / 51°14'0"N

Longitude: 1.2655 / 1°15'55"E

OS Eastings: 628061

OS Northings: 153324

OS Grid: TR280533

Mapcode National: GBR W07.NR4

Mapcode Global: VHLGX.W8C7

Plus Code: 9F3367M8+95

Entry Name: Forecourt Garden and Stable Walls to Knowlton Court

Listing Date: 3 December 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1070288

English Heritage Legacy ID: 177928

ID on this website: 101070288

Location: Knowlton, Dover, Kent, CT3

County: Kent

District: Dover

Civil Parish: Goodnestone

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


GOODNESTONE KNOWLTON
TR 25 SE
3/67 Forecourt garden
and stable walls
to Knowlton Court
GV II
Forecourt, garden and stable courtyard walls. C17 and rebuilt and extended
c.1904 by Reginald Blomfield. The front court is approximately 50 metres by
50 metres, consisting of red brick wall about 7 feet high, with simple wrought
iron gate and steps to south to garden area, and wrought gates to north to
stable court. West wall about 2 feet high with plain iron rails, and central
gates, the gate piers with stone ball finials, the pedestrian gates with
smaller, bifurcated foliate overthrows, the central gates on wrought iron
piers, with central panels of clasped straps, and elaborately bifurcated
foliated overthrow. From the north west corner of the house a wall runs out
to the stable courtyard, including 2 large gate piers with ball finials by
the house and section of wall about 8 feet high, all C18, the rest of the
wall about 6 feet high and extending for about 50 metres, until it sweeps to
the west, about 8 feet high again, and terminates in a stable building, now
garage, 1 storey and attic with kneelered gables and loft door in right
return, with C20 garage doors on ground floor, and 1 storey extension to left,
also with kneelered gable.South and east of Knowlton Court, and reached by the
flight of steps from the front court, are semi-formal gardens laid out by
Blomfield, with balustraded terraces, flights of steps crowned with urn
finials, and enclosing walls with gate piers with scrolled shoulders and ball
finials. (See Country Life,Vo139)


Listing NGR: TR2813653331

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