Listed Building record TR 14 SE 142 - ELVEN HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1723 to 1799

Location

Grid reference TR 1769 4387 (point)
Map sheet TR14SE
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish ELHAM, SHEPWAY, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 1643-1743 ELHAM THE SQUARE (west side)
9/88 Elven House 29.12.66 GV II
Formerly school, now house. 1725, possibly with earlier core, and with mid-to-late C18 facade. Front elevation red brick in Flemish bond. Right gable end older brick in Flemish-type bond. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. High painted moulded brick plinth, returned along right gable end. Plat band to right gable end only. Plain brick eaves band. Roof continuous with The Old Bakery to left, hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end. Irregular fenestration of three twenty-pane sashes in open boxes, with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs; one left of stack, and two broadly-spaced to right, all set well below eaves. Similar windows to ground floor. Door of six sunk panels under stack. Doric porch with moulded triangular pediment and slate roof. Two-storey tile-hung rear-wing to left, with lower ridge than main range, plain tile roof hipped to rear, and stack to long left side. Rear lean-to to right, brickwork integral with that of gable end. 1725 datestone to right gable end. Interior not inspected. House left to the parish by will of Sir John Williams, dated 1723, to provide for education of six local poor boys, with land to provide income (C.P.R.K. Elham, A Village Study, 1968). Formerly known as The Old School House.
Listing NGR: TR1769343878


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM