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Stourmouth House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Stourmouth, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3175 / 51°19'2"N

Longitude: 1.2503 / 1°15'1"E

OS Eastings: 626591

OS Northings: 162615

OS Grid: TR265626

Mapcode National: GBR VZ7.BYB

Mapcode Global: VHLGJ.M4CV

Plus Code: 9F338782+X4

Entry Name: Stourmouth House

Listing Date: 13 October 1952

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1281733

English Heritage Legacy ID: 178280

ID on this website: 101281733

Location: East Stourmouth, Dover, Kent, CT3

County: Kent

District: Dover

Civil Parish: Stourmouth

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


TR 26 SE STOURMOUTH EAST STOURMOUTH

(West Side)
2/248 Stourmouth House
13.10.52
GV II*

House. Early C18 front to C16 rear wing. Plum brick with red brick
dressings on main front. Timber framed with brick infill and slate cladding
on rear wing. Roof slated on front slope with plain tiled rear slope and
rear wing. Two storeys and attic on plinth with plat band with moulded
modillion eaves cornice. Central projecting block with brick quoins and
pediment. Hipped roof with 2 flat roofed dormers and stacks to left, to
right and to centre rear. Regular fenestration with pointed headed glazing
bar sash in pediment, with 5 glazing bar sashes, the centre 3 in pedimented
central black and 2 wooden casements at end left and at end right on first
floor, and 6 on ground floor with gauged heads. Central door of 8 raised and
fielded panels with segmental pediment on fluted pilasters with moulded
entablature raised to centre. Glazed conservatory on left return.
Interior: entrance hall with dado panelling and keyed elliptical headed
doorways with pilasters with raised entablature blocks. Ceiling joists with
tongued chamfers. Flagstone floor. Staircase: wreathed, moulded and ramped
handrail on turned balusters with square base knops and fluted principals, on
open string with carved brackets. Ramped raised and fielded dado panelling.
Open well plan. Some moulded dado and cornice rails in other downstairs
rooms. Principal upstairs rooms with raised and fielded panelling, the rear
walls with panelling stepped forward as if jettied into room. Exposed
upright timbers of rear timber framed wing in these rooms. Cellar with brick
arched niches, and barrel vaulted cellar. Rear wing with exposed timber frame,
C16 or early C17 stop chamfered joists. C17 newel stair with wavy splat
balusters. Much re-used timber from older wing in roof structure (clasped
purlins). Several names are carved in bricks by the main entrance, especially
of Thomas Dowker, and -- Harrison, 1754 (see B.O.E. Kent II).1983, 470).


Listing NGR: TR2659162615

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