The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 LONGPORT (South Side)
No 36 (Barton Court) TR 1557 NE 6/158 3.12.49.
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2. A large C18 house. 2 storeys and attic red brick, Roof has 3 dormers with pediments and wooden bracket eaves cornice. 5 sashes with glazing bars intact. Rusticated Venetian window in the centre of the lst floor. Below it is a rusticated doorcase with pediment over and 6 panel moulded door. Large curved bay of 3 windows on the north front. Later extension to rear.
Listing NGR: TR1569357611

Description from record TR 15 NE 786:
Barton Court, a large house in extensive grounds adjoining Longport, was singled out for close defence in the Canterbury Fortress Defence Scheme of September 1941. A fortified house was sited in some outbuilding on the western boundary of the grounds (since demolished and replaced by school buildings) and weapon pits were constructed in several places on the garden perimeter (this arrangement may have lapsed by January the following year). At that time, the 6 Cheshire Battalion had their headquarters at Barton Court, remaining there at least until January 1942. The house is also believed to have housed other military units at some point, including: ‘The Polish officers who came in 1941 ... They had tanks and lorries on the lawn out at the front.’ They had apparently previously been in charge of the ‘H’ Armoured Train (at Canterbury East Station), but this was disbanded and they were ‘subsequently provided with three semi-obsolete Valentine tanks.’ These are thought to have been destroyed when Barton Court was bombed.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : unknown
Date of visit :

Archie Waters, And We All Got Under the Table (Bibliographic reference). SKE15528.

John Herbert, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE15529.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/41, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941 (Unpublished document). SKE15531.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/42, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942 (Unpublished document). SKE15532.

Collyer D., 01/01/94, East Kent at War in old photographs (Bibliographic reference). SKE15530.