Listed Building record TQ 84 NW 236 - Charlton Court

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST SUTTON EAST SUTTON HILL Charlton Court

(Formerly listed as Redhill School, EAST SUTTON ROAD)

4.11.81

GV II Unfinished country house, formerly farmhouse, school at time of listing. Dated 1612. Restoration and additions of mid C19. Unusual plan, resembling one of John Thorpe's designs (J. Newman, West Kent and the Weald, 1980). Red brick in English bond with rendered dressings. Plain tile roof. Fragment of a house the rest of which was never built.

Two storeys, attics and basement on high coursed galletted stone plinth. Deep moulded string course above ground floor and first floor windows. Shaped gable ends with moulded rendered coping. Three shaped brick gables to south elevation, also with rendered coping. Each south gable and each gable end has three-light ovolo-moulded rendered window with hoodmould. Regular three bay front to south of one two storey slightly canted bay towards each end and two storey central triangular bay, all with plain tiled roofs abutting the three gables and with string courses continued round them. Each rectangular bay has six-light rendered ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window to each floor, with side-lights. Central bay has two-light transomed window to each side on each floor. Two cross windows between each outer bay and central bay.

Further two storey triangular bay to left gabled end. Slender rendered shaft with bell capital and base to outer and inner angle of each bay, to corners of each south gable, and to each corner of ground and first floor to front and rear. Central bay terminates just above plinth, with shaped base. Half-glazed door beneath it. Blank rendered shield or motif to each south gable, and rendered strapwork to gable ends. Date 1612 to east gable end, and shield with monogram to west gable. C19 rear wings in similar style, with chimney stacks.


Additional bibliography. (2)

Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital Little Charlton Manor (1914-1918) 20-25 beds. At the time owned by Sir Robert Filmer, who was killed in action in 1916.

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

Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document). SKE31644.

<2> AOC Archaeology Group, 2006, Charlton Court, East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent: Historic Building Record (Unpublished document). SKE16579.