Listed Building record TR 35 NW 754 - WALTON HOUSE AND COACHHOUSE ADJOINING
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TR 3109 5514 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR35NW |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | EASTRY, DOVER, KENT |
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Full Description
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 35 NW EASTRY SANDWICH ROAD
east side) 6/161 Walton House and coachhouse adjoining 11.10.63 II House. Circa 1805. Red brick, rendered and channelled with slate roof. Three storeys on plinth with stringcourse and parapet to double span roof. Stacks to left and projecting at end right. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor and second floor and 4 on ground floor with central half glazed door with semi-circular fanlight in Doric porch with open pediment at head of 4 moulded steps. Interior;original staircase of five flights with unmoulded balusters but with column principals on open string with wreathed and ramped handrail and Gothick stair light. Some moulded plaster cornices and friezes. Coachhouse adjoining to rear, red brick and slate roof. Two storeys and hipped roof. Two segmental headed windows and loft door on first floor and coach entrance to left with stable entrance and 2 segmentally headed wooden casements to right. Interior; 2 stalls and brick flooring survive.
Listing NGR: TR3109255142
An Archaeological Evaluation took place on 18 September 2014 as a condition of a planning application (2).
"The report of this evaluation details the main features identified as follows:
The results of the evaluation were consistent with those of documentary and
cartographic research, which established that Walton House was built in 1805 on what
had previously been open, probably agricultural land (see Part 3ii below). An estate
map dated 1621 (see Cummings 2014, 61) shows the area as open and featureless,
while the 1841 Eastry Tithe Map (ibid 64) clearly delineates Walton House and the
coach-house, the eastern part of the latter occupying an area now occupied by a
0.16m-thick modern concrete platform (see below). Further study of consecutive
Ordnance Survey maps suggests that, in the concreted area east of the present coachhouse,
an eastern extension/annex had stood, to be replaced at a later date by one and
then two subsidiary buildings. These latter were demolished some time after 1969
(plastic sweet wrappers and lager cans within the demolition rubble confirm that this
was a relevantly recent event).
An approximately 1.5m-high, much-weathered clay face located some seven metres
south of the coach-house and clearly shown on the 1873 OS (see Cummings 2014, 65)
indicated that the entire area now occupied by Walton House and its ancillary
buildings had been severely reduced/terraced to create an extensive flat area in order
to facilitate their construction. This was confirmed by an abrupt drop in level of what
was almost certainly part of the area’s original topography, the latter represented by a
tree-covered area lying immediately south of the house’s garden (the garden also
occupied a much-reduced, levelled area).
The substantial concrete platform situated immediately southeast of and adjoining the
outhouse lying due south-south-west of Walton House occupied exactly the footprint
of a building shown clearly on the 1841 Eastry Tithe Map and still shown on the 1969
Ordnance survey (see Cummings 2014, 70), although it is not shown on the 1873 OS.
Observations made during the evaluation as described below indicated that this
building abutted, and may have been approximately contemporary with, the stillstanding
coach-house. Occasional slight variations in its shape and area shown on
consecutive nineteenth- and twentieth-century ordnance surveys suggest it was
subject to occasional slight modification(s) before its eventual demolition." (2)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Kent Archaeological Projects, 2014, An Archaeological Evaluation at Walton House, Eastry, near Sandwich, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31241.
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Related Events/Activities (1)
- Intrusive Event: An Archaeological Evaluation at Walton House, Eastry, near Sandwich, Kent (Ref: Site Code:WHE/EVAL14) (EKE14683)
Record last edited
Aug 10 2015 3:14PM