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Eastwell Manor and Courtyard Gateways

A Grade II Listed Building in Eastwell, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1917 / 51°11'30"N

Longitude: 0.8848 / 0°53'5"E

OS Eastings: 601672

OS Northings: 147568

OS Grid: TR016475

Mapcode National: GBR SXN.8HH

Mapcode Global: VHKKG.993R

Plus Code: 9F325VRM+MW

Entry Name: Eastwell Manor and Courtyard Gateways

Listing Date: 27 November 1957

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1299575

English Heritage Legacy ID: 181521

ID on this website: 101299575

Location: Boughton Lees, Ashford, Kent, TN25

County: Kent

District: Ashford

Civil Parish: Eastwell

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


TR 04 NW EASTWELL

5/14 Eastwell Manor and
Courtyard Gateways

27.11.57
II

House. 1843 by William Burn, rebuilt 1926 - 8 by B.C. Deacon. Flint,
dressed stone and plain tile roof. An 'E' plan, with extended
wings, including remains of C18 house by Joseph Bonomi. Two
storeys, numerous irregularly placed stacks, irregular fenestra-
tion of mullioned cross-windows, 1 to each floor of left wing, left
recess, central gabled porch, right recess and 2 in right wing.
Red brick wing to right. The remains of the earlier house now
form attached walled gardens left. and right. Subsidiary features:
in the courtyards to the rear of the house are 2 C16 gateways
(formerly separately listed), a round headed stone archway with
flanking columns and cartouche over, and, to north, a 4 centred
brick arched gateway, castellated, flanked by buttresses and
castellated walls. Interior: the house contains many earlier
features brough in from elsewhere in C20, including an oriel
window in the kitchen court, panelling from Markyate, Hertfordshire,
and a C17 staircase, provenance unknown. Stone balustraded
terracing extending some 300 yards in 3 flights south of the
house, attached to a raised and paved terrace before the house.
Some £500.00 spent on the house in the C19 by the Earls of
Winchelsea.


Listing NGR: TR0167247568

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