Listed Building record TR 25 SE 296 - ST ALBANS COURT

Summary

A Elizabethan style country house constructed in 1875-78 by George Devey for William Oxenden Hammond. The lower storey of the house is constructed of ragstone, with a brick upper floor and limestone dressings. The building is placed around three sides of a courtyard. Set back to the northeast are the service wings and a full height gabled bay and tower at the north east end. The house replaced Old St Albans Court which is situated to the southwest. From 1938 until 1986 the house and its grounds were used as a teacher training college.

Location

Grid reference TR 2635 5263 (point)
Map sheet TR25SE
County KENT
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish NONINGTON, DOVER, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
NONINGTON ST.ALBANS COURT TR 25 SE 3/157 St.Albans Court 13.10.52 GV I Country mansion. 1875-78 by George Devey for William Oxenden Hammond. Ragstone ground floor with brick upper floor with ragged edge between the two. Limestone dressings. Planned round 3 sides of north courtyard. Elizabethan style of picturesque irregularity with tall clusters of polygonal stacks, straight sided gables and bay windows, partly semi-circular and partly polygonal. Main entrance in north U-shaped courtyard through four-centred doorway with dripstone and spandrels in the centre bay of 3 gabled bays with polygonal tower with castellated parapet to south west. Semi-circular oriel bay window with parapet above entrance doorway. S.W. front with 1:2:1 gables with storeyed semi-circular bay window in front of truncated northernmost gable with adjoining chimney breast to north and with 8 light canted and storeyed bay window in front of southernmost gable.S.E. elevation with large gable on south and beyond it a stone doorway then 5 gables to north east, the left hand one truncated by a chimney breast and with the lofty transomed and mullioned semi-circular bay window with pierced parapet to hall rising at the junction between the first and second of 5 gables. North-easternmost gabled bay projects forward. Set back and to the north east are service wings with full height gabled bay and tower at north-east end. Interior; internal features of interest include 2 storey hall beyond entrance hall; this has gallery on first floor. Panelled walls with stairs rising through lofty basket arched doorway on the north west side; ornate Jacobean fireplace from Northbourne Court adjoining lofty bow window. Elsewhere, ribbed ceiling panels, panelled walls; fireplace surrounds;doors etc. Panelled dining room with fine chimney piece from Northbourne Court. The best of Devey's later houses. (see Country Life, April 8 1971; see also M. Girouard, The Victorian Country House,1979; see also B.O.E.Kent II,1983,404-5) Listing NGR: TR2746750398 (1)

Gareth Daws abnd Peter Hobbs have published analysis of the brick types used at the house (2)

Historic England archive material: BF097252 ST ALBANS COURT, SANDWICH ROAD, NONINGTON


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Gareth Daws and Peter Hobbs, 2015, The variety of brick types and sizes used at Old St Albans Court, Nonington (Article in serial). SKE51710.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1>XY Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #25743 Listed Building, ]
  • <2> Article in serial: Gareth Daws and Peter Hobbs. 2015. The variety of brick types and sizes used at Old St Albans Court, Nonington. Archaeologia Cantiana vol. 136 pp 281-293.

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Record last edited

Mar 22 2022 6:53PM