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Monument details

Summary

Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1912 to 1912 The Salutation, Knightrider Street, built 1912 by Edwin Lutyens.

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Modern - 1912 AD to 2050 AD)

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Description from record TR 35 NW 63 :
5275 KNIGHTRIDER STREET (East Side) The Salutation TR 3358 1/186 19.5.50 I GV 2. Built by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1912 in Queen Anne style. 2 storeys, attic and semi-basement. Red brick with long and short stone quoins. Stone stringcourse. Coved wooden eaves cornice. Hipped tiled roof. Sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance front has 7 windows. 3 centre window bays project with quoins at the angles. 2 hipped dormers, the centre one with pediment over. Stone doorway with broken curved pediment, the doorway approached by a flight of 11 wide steps with handrail. The garden front has 6 windows with a sundial in the centre and below it a stone panel containing swags and festoons of fruit. 4 dormers. Wide flight of steps from the garden leads up to the 3 centre window bays. The south side has 5 windows and 3 dormers; also a stone panel in the centre with swags and festoons of fruit. Internal panelling said to have been brought from a demolished building in St James' London. Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll. The Salutation, Salutation Cottage and gateway and outbuildings form a group. (1) At the (east) end of Upper Strand Street there is a wide gateway, roofed on a deep white cornice spanning the gap between the cottages. It is Lutyen's typically picturesque entrance to The Salutation designed by him in 1911. The house itself is nothing but neo-Queen Anne. Brick of two colours, stone dressings. Five by five bays, two-storeyed, with dormers in the big hipped roof and gigantic block, central chimneystacks such as no eighteenth century house ever had. There is drama inside too, in the way of staircase ascends from the inner hall through an arch. The garden, laid out by Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll, is now beautifully mature. Its major accents are short rows of lombardy poplars and the tower of St Clement's church. (2) (TR 33365813) The Salutation (NAT) (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5275 KNIGHTRIDER STREET (East Side)
The Salutation TR 3358 1/186 19.5.50. I GV
2. Built by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1912 in Queen Anne style. 2 storeys, attic and semi-basement. Red brick with long and short stone quoins. Stone stringcourse. Coved wooden eaves cornice. Hipped tiled roof. Sash windows with glazing bars. The entrance front has 7 windows. 3 centre window bays project with quoins at the angles. 2 hipped dormers, the centre one with pediment over. Stone doorway with broken curved pediment, the doorway approached by a flight of 11 wide steps with handrail. The garden front has 6 windows with a sundial in the centre and below it a stone panel containing swags and festoons of fruit. 4 dormers. Wide flight of steps from the garden leads up to the 3 centre window bays. The south side has 5 windows and 3 dormers; also a stone panel in the centre with swags and festoons of fruit. Internal panelling said to have been brought from a demolished building in St James' London. Gardens by Gertrude Jekyll.
The Salutation, Salutation Cottage and gateway and outbuildings form a group.
Listing NGR: TR3337058143 (4)

<1> DOE (HHR) Dist of Dover Kent 1976 78 (OS Card Reference). SKE40273.

<2> The Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent 1983 453 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE50130.

<3> OS 1:2500 1969 (OS Card Reference). SKE48211.

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

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