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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 23 NW 422 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | THE MANOR HOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1880 to 1920
The house was used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital run by Kent/24, with 108 beds form October 1919 to January 1919.
| Grid Reference: | TR 21837 35396 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1880 AD to 1920 AD)
- (Alternate Type) HOSPITAL (Modern - 1914 AD to 1919 AD (between))
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5281 THE LEAS FOLKESTONE The Manor House TR 23 NW 10/201 II 2 Circa 1900. Built for the Earl of Radnor. 2 storeys attics and basement red brick. Green slate roof. Right side Scottish baronial turret with conical roof, Central gable with bargeboards and pendant. 2 pedimented gables. Irregular mullioned and transomed windows and porch approached up a flight of stairs with 4 round-headed arches ant Tuscan columns. The rear elevation has an attic storey which pendant applied timber framing with plaster infill. 2 projecting gables with pendant and finial. 1 gablet and 1 3-light pedimented gable. Right side crow-stepped gable. Left side gable has a 2 storey projecting bay with balustrading above. 5 mullioned and transomed casements in all. Left side conservatory. '
Listing NGR: TR2039935517
The house was used as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital run by Kent/24, with 108 beds form October 1919 to January 1919.
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Hazel Basford, 2004, Kent VAD - the work of voluntary aid detachments in Kent during the first World War (Unpublished document).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| --- | Unpublished document: Hazel Basford. 2004.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. |
