Listed Building record TR 35 NE 64 - SANDILANDS AND THE BACKS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1920 to 1940

Location

Grid reference TR 36550 57025 (point)
Map sheet TR35NE
County KENT
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish WORTH, DOVER, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
In the entry for: WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE (south side) Sandilands and The Backs 2/139
The first sentence of the description shall be amended to read:
"House, now subdivided, one part a private house the other a residential house"
WORTH CAMBRIDGE AVENUE TR 35 NE (South side)
2/139 Sandilands and The Backs
II
House, now residential home. Circa 1930 for Lord Vestey, by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Red brick in English Bond with plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan with bowed re-entrant. Two storeys and attic on basement with plinth and moulded cornice to hipped roof with 3 flat roofed dormers and stacks to left and to right, at right angles to each other, and to rear. Projecting 4 bay centre piece with giant pilasters. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor, 4 on ground floor, the centre and outer windows with keyed heads. Central double 4-panelled doors with rectangular fanlight, moulded architrave and flying cornice and 8 moulded steps. Regular fenestration of glazing bar sashes throughout rear and return elevations. Wall extending to north of main house about 6 feet high, enclosing The Backs, originally the service wing to house of one storey and attic, with hipped roof, 3 flat roofed dormers and canted bay to right with central glazed door. Interior: heavy bolection moulded panelling in some rooms, moulded skirting and cornices throughout. Oval rooms in re-entrant, with enriched lugged fireplaces. Staircase hall, with small panel wainscotting, triple round headed arcade on one wall, making 2 doorways and central recessed shell headed niche. Open well stair with ramped moulded rail and turned balusters. The panelling in this hall is reputed to have come from a Chateau owned by Lord Vestey in the Loire, and some 200 years old.
Listing NGR: TR3534258888


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

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Record last edited

Sep 30 2013 10:06AM