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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1832 Medieval hall house with extensive 18th century modifications

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TR 25 NW 30:
[TR 24175741] Wingham Court [NAT] (1)

Wingham Court, a large farmhouse, in good condition, was formerly the Hall of the paramount manor of Wingham held of the Archbishops of Canterbury. Archbishop John Peckham resided here in 1282 when he founded Wingham College (TR 25 NW 15). The present building is a hall house; the screens were removed and an upper storey was inserted in the 18th c. A Georgian facade was added to the N side, and the W end was rebuilt and additions were made on the S side in the mid 17th c. The foundations and cellars are of flint rubble walling and contain a circular flint-lined well. (2)

Additional bibliography. (3-6)

Listed Grade II*. [Full architectural description]. (7)

Additional Bibliography (8 - 13)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 2457 WINGHAM CANTERBURY ROAD
(south side) 9/342 Wingham Court and Garden Wall. 13.10.52 GV II*
House. C15, extended 1574, and reclad early C18 and early C19. Timber framed and clad with red brick and rendered to entrance elevation. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys on plinth with boxed eaves to roof with hip to left end, and shaped gable to right, with iron wall ties initialled W:C; projecting stack at end right, and cluster to centre left. Four glazing-bar sashes on first, and 2 tripartite and one single glazing-bar sashes on ground floor. Door of 8 panels to centre left in panelled surround with pediment on engaged Doric columns. Projectiong rear wings to main range also with shaped gables. Extended to left by framed building with painted brick infill, one storey and attic with 3 hipped dormers and stack to rear right. One canted bay with glazing-bar sashes, and one bay to right with large tripartite glazing bar sash. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels, the top 2 glazed, with flat hood on brackets. Wall to right C18, of red brick, swept down twice to about 5 feet and buttressed, and returned to east and south along road front for about 50 yards, terminated by pier with ball finial. Interior: main range originally four framed bays with central left cross-passage. Crown-post roof. Well within south wing. Attached single-storey range with stack dated 1574. Panelled interiors. The house was the manor house of the Archbishop's manor of Wingham, and here they and the great of the time were frequent residents. (B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 500; A. Hussey, Chronicles of Wingham, 1896; Dr. Listing NGR: TR2424457366 (14)

<1> OS 25" 1956 (OS Card Reference). SKE48271.

<2> Hist of Kent 9 1799 123 (E Hasted) (OS Card Reference). SKE44002.

<3> Arch Cant 29 1911 218 (A Hussey) (OS Card Reference). SKE34937.

<4> Church Notices St Mary's Church Wingham (OS Card Reference). SKE38965.

<5> Inf: Wingham Court Estate Office (OS Card Reference). SKE44441.

<6> F1 ASP 20.07.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42199.

<7> Arch Cant 93 1977 67 (EW Parkin) (OS Card Reference). SKE36160.

<8> Fieldwork in Local History 1982 48-9 (WG Hoskins) (OS Card Reference). SKE43418.

<9> Kent Life 3 mg 1964 28-29 (OS Card Reference). SKE45913.

<10> The Buildings of England North and East Kent 1983 500 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE50179.

<11> Field report for monument TR 25 NW 30 - July, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5749.

<12> DOE (HHR) Dist. Dover 26-Nov-1984 (129) (OS Card Reference). SKE40421.

<13> Dover Archaeological Group, 1992, Wingham Court: Assessment of Arch. Implications of Proposed Development 1992 (Dover Arch. Group) (Unpublished document). SKE6753.

<14> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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