Listed Building: TUNSTALL COURT (1344266)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 695, 8, 160
Date assigned 11 July 1987
Date last amended

Description

SITTINGBOURNE TQ 86 SE GORE COURT ROAD 8/160 II Tunstall Court Large house, latterly in use for educational purposes. Designed by Walter Brierley of York in 1914 in Neo-Queen Anne style. Built of red brick in English bond with brick dressings stone doorcase and hipped plain tiled roof with 2 massive panelled brick chimney-stacks. 2 storeys and attics, irregular fenestration. North of entrance front has 2 hipped end projections. Centre has 2 hipped dormers with leaded lights. Below are 5 windows including 3 casements, the ground floor ones with brick relieving arches and 2 tall 18 pane sashes with horns spanning both floors. Central stone doorcase with pediment and eaved architrave with date 1914 in centre. Wooden 3 panelled door with cross shape to lowest panel. Right hand side has plain 1/2 glazed door: left end projection has oval blank to first floor and 2 6-pane sashes curved top and bottom to ground floor. South or garden front has 2 projecting hipped gables linked by curved wooden portico with 2 Tuscan columns and 2 pilasters and elaborate balustrade forming balcony above. 5 windows. First floor windows mainly 12 pane sashes with horns and thick glazing bars and wooden jalousies apart from central French windows. End quoins and bond between floors. Ground floor windows are 15 pane sashes with horns and jalousies. To left and right of hipped projections there is one further 6 pane sash with cambered head. Section of brick walling to right hand side leads to integral. 1 storey brick garage with hipped tiled roof; 1 6 pane sash curved at top and bottom and wooden double doors. Listing NGR: TQ8997462770

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 8997 6276 (point)
Map sheet TQ86SE
Civil Parish SITTINGBOURNE, SWALE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 15 2006 6:00PM