Listed Building: DUNSTALL PRIORY (1272744)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 771, 31, 1219
Date assigned 10 September 1954
Date last amended

Description

1. 5280 SHOREHAM SHOREHAM Shoreham Road (East Side) Dunstall Priory TQ 5261 31/1219 10.9.54. II 2. This small mansion was built about 1810 by an architect called Lugar, a contemporary of John Nash, and is very similar in design to a number of houses built by Nash such as Cronkhill near Shrewsbury or Sandridge in Devon. Dunstall Priory is typical of the Rural Palladian style combining the simplest classical shape with varied planning and picturesque silhouette. The chief feature of the house is a round tower with conical slate roof and irregular-shaped 2-storey main structure adjacent. Elevations of stucco with incised lines in imitation of stone courses, projecting eaves with plastered soffit and Welsh slate roof. Round-headed sash windows and French casements on ground floor with canopied verandah. The interior plan is interesting with Regency bowed room formed in the base of the tower. Dunstall Priory was the house of the late Lord Dunsany. Listing NGR: TQ5290761867

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5290 6186 (point)
Map sheet TQ56SW
Civil Parish SHOREHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 10:25AM