Listed Building record TR 24 NE 148 - EYETHORNE HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1720 to 1762

Location

Grid reference TR 2829 4903 (point)
Map sheet TR24NE
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish EYTHORNE, DOVER, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EYTHORNE COLDRED ROAD TR 24 NE (East Side) 11.10.63 4/29 Eyethorne House GV II House. 1762 remodelling a house of c.1740 for Peter Fector, banker and merchant of Dover. Red brick and mathematical tiles with plain tiled roof. Twin span roof to 2 parallel ranges. Three storeys on plinth with parapet to hipped roof with stacks to left and to right. End left and end right window bays recessed slightly. Six square wooden casements on second floor, 6 glazing bar sashes on first floor and 5 on ground floor all with gauged heads with painted keystones. Moulded panelled door to centre right in segmentally headed stone surround with moulded base. Interior: Fielded panelling in downstairs and upstairs rooms and original stair with dado panelling. Plain marble fire places all reported. Hasted devotes a lengthy eulogy to the house, its site and its builder. At some time also the dower house to Betteshanger Court, and residence of Nico Llewellyn Davis, with his brothers the inspiration and dedicatee of Peter Pan. (See Hasted, X, 63; see also Kent Life, May 1979, pp. 28 & 29).
Listing NGR: TR2829449039


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM