Building record TR 35 SW 231 - EASTRY HOSPITAL, THE OLD BUILDINGS

Summary

formerly a Grade II listed building (until December 2018). Main construction periods 1767 to 1855

Location

Grid reference TR 3084 5466 (point)
Map sheet TR35SW
County KENT
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish EASTRY, DOVER, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 3054 EASTRY MILL LANE
(south side) 12/155 Eastry Hospital, 11.10.63 The old buildings
GV II
Workhouse now hospital buildings. Late C18. Red brick and slate roof, with adjacent wing of chequered red and blue brick with slate roof. Main range of 3 storeys and basement with parapet to hipped roof, with 2 storey hipped wings to left and to right. Four metal casements with central Diocletian window on second floor, 4 glazing bar sashes and central glazing bar sash with shallow segmental head on first floor and 4 glazing bar sashes on ground floor with blocked central doorway, the traceried elliptical fanlight survives. Four basement openings. The wings with 2 glazing bar sashes on each floor. All openings with gauged heads obscured on first and ground floors by iron girders over window heads. Additional wings to left, of two storeys with 1 glazing bar sash on each floor, 1 storey with 1 wooden casement and 1 glazing bar sash, and at end left, 2 storeys with irregular fenestration of 4 wooden casements and glazing bar sashes on each floor. Hasted refers to the workhouse as a 'spacious, handsome edifice lately erected', i.e. in the 1780's. Extended c.1835 after the Poor Law Act (See Hasted, X, 99).
Listing NGR: TR3084754662

The building was delisted in December 2018. The stated reasons were:
Degree of Architectural Interest:
* the main building has been almost totally demolished leaving only a vestigial late-C19 extension to
the west. The ancillary building to the east (Tewkesbury House) survives but has had significant damage to its south elevation as well as being compromised by later alteration;
* whilst Tewkesbury House has some interest as an early-C19 building, there is no evidence of its original function, and its context has been lost with the demolition of the main workhouse building.

Historic England archive material: BF101426 BETTESHANGER CONVALESCENT HOME, EASTRY


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

Sources/Archives (1)

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

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: RCHME: Hospitals Project (EKE20853)

Record last edited

May 8 2025 11:53AM