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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1695 to 1878. Nash court 1713, late 18thc, & mid 19thc

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1695 AD to 2050 AD)

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Description from record TR 05 NW 17:
[TR04705994] Nash Court [NAT] (1) Nash Court 1713 late c18 and mid c19, Grade II*. (2) Nash Court, built by Thomas Hawkins before 1713 according to his wifes ledger-stone in the church. The stone porch looks c1840. A guidebook of 1876 says that the house had become dilapidated and was restored a few years previously. In its main line however it agrees with the engraving in Hastings edition of 1790. (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 0459-0559 BOUGHTON NASH COURT
6/66 Nash Court
GV II*
House. 1713, late C18 and mid C19. Red brick with ashlar dressing. Roof slated to front, but otherwise tiled. Two storeys and attic on plinth with plat band frieze, cornice and balustrade. Quoins to slightly projecting wings and centre piers. Shallow pediment over central bay. Hipped roof with 4 raking dormers and 6 stacks ranged across ridge. Six sashes on first floor with gauged and keyed heads and central tripartite sash with bracketed cornice. Tripartite French doors on ground floor to left and right, 4 sashes with gauged and keyed heads, and central half-glazed double doors with moulded and lugged segment headed surround. Doric portico with columns in antis and pierced parapet over. Roofs to rear maintain early C18 tiling and 1 segmental headed dormer window; some red and blue chequered brick to rear ranges. Interior: early C18 staircase, with ramped and moulded handrail on barley-sugar balusters with Corinthian column-bbyli principals. Open string with brackets. Open well plan.Segmental pedimented doorcase to principal upstairs room from staircase landing. Bolection moulded raised and fielded panelling in several rooms and corridors. Early C18 vaulted cellars and clasped purlin roof structure. Otherwise the interior decoration is late C18 Neo-Classical. Fine plastered and coloured ceilings, restored mid C20. Lugged segmental marble fireplaces, enriched with scrolls, pulvinated frieze and cornice. Entrance hall with anthemion and egg and tongue frieze and cornice, marble floor, and pilastered screens. Ornate late C19 central heating grills and large box heaters with pierced side panels in several rooms. The house built originally 1713, and rebuilt after riot damage c.1715. Hasted says "fitted up within these few years with much taste in the modern stile," possibly for Colonel Montressor, one time tenant of Belmont Park, Throwley. Restored before 1878, but maintaining main lines of 1790 engraving. Architects unknown. (See Hasted, VII, 3 + 10, B.0.E. Kent II, 1983, 152). Listing NGR: TR0470459936 (4)

<1> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.

<2> Hist & Topographical Survey of the County of Kent VII 1790 3 & 10 (E.Hasted) (OS Card Reference). SKE43768.

<3> DOE (HHR) Swale Boro Kent May 1986 23 (OS Card Reference). SKE40627.

<4> Bldgs of Eng (ed N.Pevsner) NE & E Kent 1983 152 (J.Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37699.

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

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