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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 13 NE 134 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | BEACHBOROUGH PARK |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1813 to 1959
The Queen's Canadian Military Hospital with 130 beds, run by the Canadian War Contingents Association
| Grid Reference: | TR 1692 3810 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR13NE |
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| Parish: | NEWINGTON, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1813 AD to 1959 AD)
- (Alternate Type) HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1918 AD (at some time))
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1061082: BEACHBOROUGH PARK |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 13 NE NEWINGTON B2065 (West Side)
4/39 Beachborough Park (Formerly 29.12.66 Listed as Beachborough)
GV II
North part of west wing of house. 1813 by Sir James Drake Brockman, possibly with earlier core. Rendered, with slate roof. 2 storeys. West elevation: Plain stone-coped parapet above moulded rendered cornice. Roof hipped to left (north). Central bell cupola with pyramidal roof and weathervane. Painted gable end stack to right. Regular 5-window front of four recessed 6-pane sashes and central 8-pane sash. Tall 12-pane ground- floor sashes. Blank area towards left end longer than that towards right. Central door of 2 fielded panels, and semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars. 2 fire insurance plaques above door. Short right return wing with sundial with segmental pediment, dated 1813, removed from demolished main range of house. Long single-storey painted brick range with slate.roof running along left gable end. Single-storey flat-roofed addition to right gable end. Wing formerly extended further to right (south) as part of an H-plan house, the central range of which was destroyed by fire in the 1950's. Interior not inspected. See also items 4/40 and 4/41.
Listing NGR: TR1692138106
The Queen's Canadian Military Hospital with 130 beds, run by the Canadian War Contingents Association
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.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004. Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War. |
