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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1300 to 1832 16th c house and 14th c underground chamber

Monument Types

• CRYPT (CRYPT, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TR 26 NE 40:
|(TR 25956693) St Nicholas Court (NAT) (1) TR 26 NE ST NICHOLAS AT WADE COURT ROAD (south side) 1/81 St Nicholas Court 13-10-52 GV II* House. C14 crypt, C16 house altered early and late C18 and early C19. Timber framed, rendered, extended in painted brick. Plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan. Two storeys with rusticated quoins and paired modillion eaves to moulded wooden parapet with rendered early C18 shaped gable at end right. Hipped projecting wing to left. Stacks to end right, centre left and front left. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor and 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor, with 1 glazing bar sash over 1 tripartite sash to left wing. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels in moulded surround, with elliptical canopy over. Interior: frame visible with chamfered and stopped beams. Cover over-mantel to inglenook. Clasped purlin roof. Moulded doorways, doors with H and L hinges, elliptical arched passage-doorways, fitted cupboards and kitchen shelving and several marble fireplaces all early C19 or late C18. Early C19 room with elliptical screen and 2 recessed Gothick margin-light windows. Moulded plaster cornice to stair halls including hop motif. In addition to cellars below the house, a vaulted brick passage leads from below the house to the north, down flight of steps, to underground C14 chamber, constructed of tooled chalk blocks (as is the end of the passage). Cruciform plan, with central quadripartite rib-vaulted ceiling, chamfered string course, ogee-cusped recesses in end walls of 2 wings, the other end wall rebuilt in brick with brick elliptically headed recesses in wall. Probably the crypt to a demolished chapel. (Petronella, widow of John of St Nicholas given licence to hear mass at her house, 1327). (See BOE Kent II, 1983, 439; see also Igglesden, vol.26, 91). TR 26 NE ST NICHOLAS AT WADE COURT ROAD (south side) 1/82 Barn about 20 metres north-east of St Nicholas Court GV II Barn. C17. Red brick in English Bond with plain tiled roof. Plinth and half-hipped roof, with half-hipped central projection, and projecting from that a hipped mid-strey. Outshots to left and to right, and cart doors to left, and sash windows on left return. Interior: 3 bays with clasped purlin roof. (2,3)

The crypt was surveyed in the 1990s (5)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ST NICHOLAS AT WADE COURT ROAD TR 26 NE (south side) 1/81 St Nicholas Court 13-10-52 GV II* House. C14 crypt, C16 house altered early and late C18 and early C19. Timber framed, rendered, extended in painted brick. Plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan. Two storeys with rusticated quoins and paired modillion eaves to moulded wooden parapet with rendered early C18 shaped gable at end right. Hipped projecting wing to left. Stacks to end right, centre left and front left. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor and 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor, with 1 glazing bar sash over 1 tripartite sash to left wing. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels in moulded surround, with elliptical canopy over. Interior: frame visible with chamfered and stopped beams. Coved over- mantel to inglenook. Clasped purlin roof. Moulded doorways, doors with H and L hinges, elliptical arched passage-doorways, fitted cupboards and kitchen shelving and several marble fireplaces all early C19 or late C18. Early C19 room with elliptical screen and 2 recessed Gothick margin- light windows. Moulded plaster cornice to stair halls including hop motif. In addition to cellars below the house, a vaulted brick passage leads from below the house to the north, down flight of steps, to under- ground C14 chamber, constructed of tooled chalk blocks (as is the end of the passage). Cruciform plan, with central quadripartite rib-vaulted ceiling, chamfered string course, ogee-cusped recesses in end walls of 2 wings,the other end wall rebuilt in brick with brick elliptically headed recesses in wall. Probably the crypt to a demolished chapel. (Petronella, widow of John of St Nicholas given licence to hear mass at her house, 1327). (See BOE Kent II, 1983, 439; see also Igglesden, vol.26, 91).
Listing NGR: TR2595866890 (6)

Historic england archive material: BF097730 ST NICHOLAS COURT, COURT ROAD, ST NICHOLAS AT WADE

<1> OS 1:10000 1980 (OS Card Reference). SKE48166.

<2> DOE(HHR) Dist of Thanet Kent 1986 35 (OS Card Reference). SKE41084.

<3> Bldgs of Eng NE & E Kent 1983 439 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37772.

<5> Lambert P and Mcintosh K, 2001, The Crypt at St Nicholas Court, St Nicholas at Wade (Article in serial). SKE54856.

<6> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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