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Cleve Court and Cleve Lodge

A Grade II* Listed Building in Monkton, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3489 / 51°20'55"N

Longitude: 1.3181 / 1°19'5"E

OS Eastings: 631156

OS Northings: 166315

OS Grid: TR311663

Mapcode National: GBR X08.B36

Mapcode Global: VHLGC.SCQ9

Plus Code: 9F3388X9+G7

Entry Name: Cleve Court and Cleve Lodge

Listing Date: 11 October 1963

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1224683

English Heritage Legacy ID: 420391

ID on this website: 101224683

Location: Mount Pleasant, Thanet, Kent, CT12

County: Kent

District: Thanet

Civil Parish: Monkton

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


MONKTON MINSTER ROAD TR 36 NW (West side) 2/58 Cleve Court and Cleve Lodge 11-10-63 II* House and service range, now also house. C17 or earlier, main range built between 1723 and 1748 for John Rucke, banker of London. Plum brick with red brick dressings and plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with moulded plinth, rendered plat band and cornice to parapet. Stacks to left and to right. Regular fenestration of 4 glazing bar sashes with gauged and keyed segmental heads on each floor, with central Venetian window on first floor, and double doors each of 3 raised and fielded panels on ground floor at head of flight of 3 steps, and with moulded cornice on brackets. Left return: 3 blank segmental window spaces on each floor. Right and right return: irregular lower service wing of red brick in part in English Bond, with plain tiled roof. Two storeys, hipped with returned hip right. Irregular fenestration of 5 wooden casements and sashes. Possibly a framed building. Interior: of main range, early C18 stair on dog-leg plan with turned balusters and ramped handrail. Occupied for many years by Lord Carson (1854-1935) who died here. (See Hasted, vol X, p.256; see also B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 396.)

Listing NGR: TR3115666315

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