Listed Building: LOGGIA, ATTACHED WALLS, NICHES CONTAINING STATUES, FOUNTAIN, STONE GARDEN ORNAMENTS, STATUE AND URN IN THE ITALIAN GARDEN TO BROOME PARK HOTEL (1336874)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 956, 18, 22B
Date assigned 30 January 1967
Date last amended

Description

1. 5273 BARHAM CANTERBURY ROAD (north-west side) Loggia Attached walls,niches containing statues, fountain, stone garden ornaments, statue and urn in the Italian Garden to Broome Park Hotel TR 24 NW 18/22B 30.1.67. II GV 2. The garden and its ornaments probably designed by Lord Kitchener in 1911. The small loggia is in red brick with, on the south side, 3 round-headed stone archvaye approached by 4 steps with stone Corinthian columns between and brick pilasters on the outside. Stone cartouches brought from elsewhere in the spandrels. Stone blocking course with vases at its angles. On both sides of the Loggia a yew hedge with a brick wall behind it joins the building to small brick structures flanked by pilasters and each containing a round-headed stone-edged niche containing a statue (one apparently antique the other probably C19) with a broken pediment over. The eastern focus of the garden is a stone wall fountain with a terracotta balustrade above flanked by curved staircases, the staircases leading to a terrace, the concealed structure behind being part of the service basement built out from the main house. Imported ornaments in the garden include columns of marble with swag ornament set in squares of yew hedge, a column to the centre with a bronze statue of Pan by Brucciani and, at the eastern focus of the garden, a large urn on a plinth with martial and musical carved trophies, the latter 2 ornaments probably being of the early C2O. Listing NGR: TR2186848244

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 2189 4821 (point)
Map sheet TR24NW
Civil Parish BARHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 4:25PM