Listed Building: WALLED GARDENS AND STABLES ADJACENT TO AND WEST OF NOS 1-3 THE GROVES (1070133)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1891, 5, 229
Date assigned 26 November 1987
Date last amended

Description

TR 25 NE STAPLE GROVE ROAD (North End) 5/229 Walled gardens and stables adjacent to and west of Nos. 1-3 The Groves GV II Walled gardens. Mid C18 for Sir William Lynch. Plum coloured brick, with irregular buttressing and coping. Average height of about 8 feet, in 2 courts, each about 100 by 200 feet square. Two gate piers on south wall, of plum brick with red brick dressings, about 10 feet high with moulded stone cornice caps. Segmental headed doorway with parapet and poetical inscription over. At south west end of gardens a C17 stable block, of 1 storey in irregular red brick, with double span roof. Stalls and mangers survive inside. A rebuilt C17 coachhouse at extreme south-west corner, in process of conversion to house at time of survey, and not of listable quality. Listing NGR: TR2686557165

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 2681 5718 (point)
Map sheet TR25NE
Civil Parish STAPLE, DOVER, KENT

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Record last edited

Jan 18 2012 11:47AM