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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1200 to 1799 Lodge (13th c and later). Substantial part of a manor house of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury consisting of a hall and services with solar over, known to have been built in 1313 and a further small range and lower end which may be of slightly later date. There is evidence for upper end accommodation which was built in 1311. There were a number of post medieval alterations. These include the construction of a small timber wing in the angle between the main range and the north wing (probably in the 17th century) and of a new front entrance and porch at the upper end of the hall (19th century).

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1311 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TQ 94 SE 16:
(TQ 97914193) Court Lodge (NAT) (1) 5272 GREAT CHART THE STREET (north-west side) Court Lodge TQ 9741 24/20 17.9.52. II* 2. A mediaeval C13 stone house altered C17 to C18. Two storeys and attics stone rubble with red brick window dressings and quoins, patched with brick in places. Very steeply-pitched hipped roof with smoke louvres 2 gabled dormers. Four casement windows with wooden mullions and transoms. Stone porch at the south-west angle of the front with pointed stone doorway, having a dripstone over it and above a timbered gable with red brick infilling. Brick chimney breasts on the north wall. Side elevation has trefoil-headed window. Bricked-in stone archway to rear. The interior contains panelling and a panel of 12 carved relief heads, perhaps brought from Godinton Park. (2) Court Lodge is remarkable, a complete stone house known to have been built in 1313. The crown-post roof-structure being the earliest dated example.(3)

Description from record TQ 94 SE 23:
C14 building with later alterations

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 GREAT CHART THE STREET (north-west side) Court Lodge TQ 9741 24/20 17.9.52. II* 2. A mediaeval C13 stone house altered C17 to C18. Two storeys and attics stone rubble with red brick window dressings and quoins, patched with brick in places. Very steeply-pitched hipped roof with smoke louvres 2 gabled dormers. Four casement windows with wooden mullions and transoms. Stone porch at the south-west angle of the front with pointed stone doorway, having a dripstone over it and above a timbered gable with red brick infilling. Brick chimney breasts on the north wall. Side elevation has trefoil-headed window. Bricked-in stone archway to rear. The interior contains panelling and a panel of 12 carved relief heads, perhaps brought from Godinton Park.
Listing NGR: TQ9791441934 (4)

Substantial part of a manor house of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury consisting of a hall and services with solar over, known to have been built in 1313 and a further small range and lower end which may be of slightly later date. There is evidence for upper end accommodation which was built in 1311. There were a number of post medieval alterations. These include the construction of a small timber wing in the angle between the main range and the north wing (probably in the 17th century) and of a new front entrance and porch at the upper end of the hall (19th century).

Historic England archive material (1)

Historic England, Archive material associated with Court Lodge, Great Chart, Listed Building (Archive). SKE55675.

<1> OS 1:2500 1971 (OS Card Reference). SKE48213.

<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Ashford, B Kent Oct 1980 134 (OS Card Reference). SKE40197.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 306 (OS Card Reference). SKE37867.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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