Listed Building: WANSTONE FARMHOUSE (1070032)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1411, 6, 77
Date assigned 23 April 1987
Date last amended

Description

TR 34 SE ST MARGARETS AT CLIFFE UPPER ROAD (east side) 6/77 Wanstone Farmhouse II House. C15, rebuilt late C17 and extended mid C20. Red brick and flint with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and basement with plat band and corbelled eaves cornice. Lower sections of walls largely of flint with some flint bands, the whole rebuilt with red brick in patches. Stacks to centre left and projecting and offset at end right. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements on each floor, and damaged panelled door to centre right. Interior: much refitting C20,and C17; evidence remains of timber framed house with through passage on present entry line, the partition walls containing 1 four centred arched doorway, and slots for lost door frames on service side. Large, braced vertical timbers also survive in partitions, and in part in wall structure. Fine moulded ceiling joists; inglenook fireplaces. Roof structure renewed. The house is an ancient manorial site, abandoned and ruinous since army occupation W.W.II. Listing NGR: TR3553444945

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3541 4354 (point)
Map sheet TR34SE
Civil Parish ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 17 2006 11:07AM