Listed Building record TR 24 SE 172 - ST RADEGUND'S ABBEY FARMHOUSE AND OUTHOUSE
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TR 27538 41954 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR24SE |
County | KENT |
District | DOVER, KENT |
Civil Parish | HOUGHAM WITHOUT, DOVER, KENT |
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Description from record TR 24 SE 26 :
(TR 27544195) St Radigund's Abbey Farm (NAT) (1) To rear right (SE of house) a single storeyed wing, with corrugated iron roof, of flint on dressed stone, with boarded door and wooden casement to east front, being the remains of monastic "common house". (2-3) Additional bibliography. (4)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 24 SE HOUGHAM ABBEY ROAD (south side) 4/66 St. Radegund's 27.8.52 Abbey Farmhouse and Outhouse GV II* Monastic refectory, now house. Early C13, converted to house c.1590 for Simon Edolph, and altered C18. Restored 1981. pressed stone, flint and rubble, with some red brick details, and plain tiled roof. Two storeys on undercroft, with hipped roof, and brick stacks to rear centre and rear left. Projecting hipped 2 storey porch to right. Patterned stonework throughout (of c.1590) with triangular panels, lozenge-shaped ashlar set in flint panels, and alternating stone and flint blocks. Two cross windows on first floor, and wooden 4 light mullioned and transomed window to left, and stone 3 light to centre right on ground floor, both insertions into earlier openings with label hoods over. Blocked brick basement opening to left, and 2 wooden casements to centre and to right. Porch at end right, with leaded wooden casements on first floor, and moulded round headed arch with imposts and keystone, and spandrels with shields, and pilaster and cornice surround; at head of flights of 8 steps, with multi-panelled and moulded original door, in keyed and impost inner doorway. Right-return: tile hung. Rear elevation with greater evidence of medieval openings, including chamfered doorway, and 3 massive buttresses. Refectory pulpit remains embedded at first floor level; to rear right (south-east of house) a single storeyed wing, with corrugated iron roof, of flint on dressed stone, with boarded door and wooden casement to east front, being the remains of monastic "common house". Interior: screens passage, C13 4 bay vaulted undercroft. The Abbey was founded 1191 for Premonstratensian Canons, colonised directly from Premontre; major building took place only in the early C13, however, the foundation declining by about 1450, dissolved 1538, and purchased by Simon Edolph 1590. (See Sir William St. John Hope, Arch. Cant. 14,1882; see also B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 439-440; see also I.W. Green, Kent Life, June 1970).
Listing NGR: TR2764342124 (5)
Additional references (6)
Historic England archive material: AF1204698 RCHME: SAMs Pilot Project RCHME York and Cambridge conducted a survey pilot covering a variety of SAM sites throughout Northern and Eastern England between January and June1999 for management purposes.Contents : 1 pencil plan, 3 ink plans, 1 report, survey data (including CAD features on OS maps), 7 prints, computer plot, project brief, correspondence, miscellaneous, 3 computer disks
<1> OS 1:2500 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48214.
<2> Kent Life June 1970 (IW Green) (OS Card Reference). SKE45914.
<3> DOE(HHR) Dist of Dover 1987 29 (OS Card Reference). SKE40938.
<4> BOE NE and E Kent 1983 439-40 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38248.
<5> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<6> Arch Cant 14 1882 140-52 (W St John Hope) (OS Card Reference). SKE34712.
Sources/Archives (6)
- <1> SKE48214 OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1972.
- <2> SKE45914 OS Card Reference: Kent Life June 1970 (IW Green).
- <3> SKE40938 OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Dist of Dover 1987 29.
- <4> SKE38248 OS Card Reference: BOE NE and E Kent 1983 439-40 (J Newman).
- <5>XY SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #25871 Listed Building, ]
- <6> SKE34712 OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 14 1882 140-52 (W St John Hope).
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Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (3)
- Intrusive Event: Evaluation near the Stone Barn at St Radigund's Abbey Farm, Dover (EKE10332)
- Non-Intrusive Event: RCHME National SAMs Survey Pilot Project (EKE19936)
- Intrusive Event: Watching brief at St Radigund's Abbey Farm, Hough, nr Dover (Ref: HSRA-WB-09) (EKE11081)
Record last edited
Mar 15 2022 12:10PM