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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1833

Summary from record TQ 57 NE 101:

Dated 1833, this coach house is a Grade II Listed Building, associated with Ingress Abbey, just to the NW.

Monument Types

• COACH HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1833 AD to 2004 AD (between))
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1833 AD to 1833 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5274 SWANSCOMBE AND GREENHITHE THE AVENUE (east side) Greenhithe
Stable block to east of Ingress Abbey TQ 57 NE 1/88
II GV
2. Dated 1833, 2 storeys ashlar with slate roof. Central projecting gable with 3 finials and round window. Flanking wings of 2 storeys with hoist to right hand side. Central double door with quatrefoils in spandrels. Two arched doorcases. Windows boarded at time of survey (1979), clustered stacks and crow-stepped end gables.
Listing NGR: TQ5879975165

Description from record TQ 57 NE 101:
Referred to variously as the Coach House, the Stable Block and Ivydene. This building dates to c1833 when the owner of Ingress Park, James Harmer began work on his new house, Ingress Abbey. It was connected to the east wing of the house via some Portland Stone steps. The 2 storey building has two wings joined by a central projecting gable. The ground floor had limited stable and coach accomodation, with residential accomodation on the first floor. It is of similar construction to the main house, with ragstone walls, clad externally with Portland stone ashlar in a Gothic vocabulary.The building was set back against the scarp of a chalk pit, so that only the first floor of the western elevation is visible above ground [1and 2].
An archaeological investigation was undertaken in the area between the coach house and Ingress Abbey, during groundworks necessary for the installation of a disabled access lift. No significant archaeological features or deposits were observed. The area appeared to be made ground, associated with the construction of Ingress Abbey in the early nineteenth century [3 and 4].

<1> Debois Landscape Survey Group, 1999, Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent A record of the landscape. (Unpublished document). SKE12236.

<2> AOC Archaeology Group, 1998, Ingress Abbey Greenhithe Kent. An Archaeological Impact Assessment. (Unpublished document). SKE12234.

<3> AOC Archaeology Group, 2003, Archaeological Recording at the Coach House, Ingress Park, Greenhithe, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE12243.

<4> AOC Archaeology Group, 2004, Results Of Archaeological Excavation And Recording At Ingress Abbey, Greenhithe, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE12239.

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