Listed Building: WICKHURST (1263914)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1410, 2, 152
Date assigned 24 March 1987
Date last amended

Description

WORTH KING'S AVENUE TR 35 NE (North side) Sandwich Bay 2/152 Wickhurst II House. Early C20. Painted brick with grey pantiled roof. Cape Dutch style. Two storeys with box eaves to roofwith stepped shaped gables and stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 4 metal casements on each floor with shutters, with small casements to centre left and centre right on each floor, in round headed recesses on ground floor. Central door of 3 moulded panels, with fretwork spy-hole, and flat hood on enriched brackets with central monkish corbel. Projecting single storey hipped wings to left and right, part of garage court at left, with a returned single storey wing extension from main range. The wing to right has glazed french doors and metal casements. Front garden enclosed by painted wall about about 6 feet high with pantiled coping, with central hipped gateway, with keyed semi- circular gateway with wrought iron gate and overthrow, the walls sweep forward to join to the end of the side walls projecting from the side wings. Interior: with beamed ceilings and original fittings. M.H. Baillie-Scott designed in this style, but the documented house by him at Sandwich Bay is destroyed. (Four winds, 1929 for Lady Pearson) Architect unknown. Listing NGR: TR3590457349

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 3596 5752 (point)
Map sheet TR35NE
Civil Parish WORTH, DOVER, KENT

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Record last edited

Sep 16 2011 4:18PM