Listed Building: SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS (1263942)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1410, 2, 139 |
Date assigned | 24 March 1987 |
Date last amended |
Description
In the entry for: WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE (south side) Sandilands and The Backs 2/139
The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read:
"House, now subdivided, one part a private house the other a residential house"
WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE TR 35 NE (South side)
2/139 Sandilands and The Backs
II
House, now residential home. Circa 1930 for Lord Vestey, by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Red brick in English Bond with plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan with bowed re-entrant. Two storeys and attic on basement with plinth and moulded cornice to hipped roof with 3 flat roofed dormers and stacks to left and to right, at right angles to each other, and to rear. Projecting 4 bay centre piece with giant pilasters. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor, 4 on ground floor, the centre and outer windows with keyed heads. Central double 4-panelled doors with rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave and flying cornice and 8 moulded steps. Regular fenestration of glazing bar sashes throughout rear and return elevations. Wall extending to north of main house about 6 feet high, enclosing The Backs, originally the service wing to house of one storey and attic, with hipped roof, 3 flat roofed dormers and canted bay to right with central glazed door. Interior: heavy bolection moulded panelling in some rooms, moulded skirting and cornices throughout. Oval rooms in re-entrant, with enriched lugged fireplaces. Staircase hall, with small panel wainscotting, triple round headed arcade on one wall, making 2 doorways and central recessed shell headed niche. Open well stair with ramped moulded rail and turned balusters. The panelling in this hall is reputed to have come from a Chateau owned by Lord Vestey in the Loire, and some 200 years old.
Listing NGR: TR3534258888
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Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 3655 5702 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR35NE |
Civil Parish | WORTH, DOVER, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Feb 10 2010 12:38PM