Listed Building record TR 14 NW 31 - GREAT DOWLES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799

Location

Grid reference TR 12994 45977 (point)
Map sheet TR14NW
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish ELMSTED, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD STONE STREET (West-side)
1/124 Great Dowles 29.12.66 (Formerly listed as Great Dowles Farmhouse)
II
Farmhouse, now house. C18. Red brick in Flemish bond to front elevation. Gable ends and rear in English bond. Plain tile roof. Double depth. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Chamfered brick plinth. Rubbed brick plat band, interrupted over door. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched hipped roof, hips returning to rear. Rear stacks to left and right. Two nine-pane dormers with hipped plain-tile roofs. Regular 5-window front of twelve-pane sashes with thin glazing bars, in open boxes. Similar but longer windows to ground floor, with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Central door of six fielded panels, with decorative rectangular fanlight and flat corniced and bracketed hood. Fire Insurance plaque. Interior: staircase with slender turned balusters and shaped handrail. Ovolo-moulded axial beam with panelled soffit to left ground-floor room, and similar cross beam to rear left room. Chamfered axial beam to right ground-floor room and boxed axial beam to rear. Painted brick fireplace with bressumer to front right room. Staggered butt purlin roof. Panelled doors.
Listing NGR: TR1296046026


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

May 26 2011 2:30PM