History in Structure

Great Dowles

A Grade II Listed Building in Elmsted, Kent

We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?

Upload Photo »

Approximate Location Map
Large Map »

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1734 / 51°10'24"N

Longitude: 1.0456 / 1°2'44"E

OS Eastings: 612994

OS Northings: 145979

OS Grid: TR129459

Mapcode National: GBR TZD.76G

Mapcode Global: VHLH0.2RNW

Plus Code: 9F3352FW+87

Entry Name: Great Dowles

Listing Date: 29 December 1966

Last Amended: 17 October 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1241930

English Heritage Legacy ID: 441217

ID on this website: 101241930

Location: Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, CT4

County: Kent

District: Folkestone and Hythe

Civil Parish: Elmsted

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Tagged with: Architectural structure

Find accommodation in
Stelling

Description



TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD STONE STREET
(West-side)

1/124 Great Dowles
29.12.66 (Formerly listed as
Great Dowles Farmhouse)

II

Farmhouse, now house. C18. Red brick in Flemish bond to front elevation.
Gable ends and rear in English bond. Plain tile roof. Double depth.
2 storeys, attic and cellar. Chamfered brick plinth. Rubbed brick
plat band, interrupted over door. Moulded wooden eaves cornice.
Steeply-pitched hipped roof, hips returning to rear. Rear stacks
to left and right. Two nine-pane dormers with hipped plain-tile roofs.
Regular 5-window front of twelve-pane sashes with thin glazing bars,
in open boxes. Similar but longer windows to ground floor, with splayed
rubbed brick voussoirs. Central door of six fielded panels, with
decorative rectangular fanlight and flat corniced and bracketed hood.
Fire Insurance plaque. Interior: staircase with slender turned balusters
and shaped handrail. Ovolo-moulded axial beam with panelled soffit
to left ground-floor room, and similar cross beam to rear left room.
Chamfered axial beam to right ground-floor room and boxed axial beam
to rear. Painted brick fireplace with bressumer to front right room.
Staggered butt purlin roof. Panelled doors.


Listing NGR: TR1299445978

External Links

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

Other nearby listed buildings

BritishListedBuildings.co.uk is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. All government data published here is used under licence. Please do not contact BritishListedBuildings.co.uk for any queries related to any individual listed building, planning permission related to listed buildings or the listing process itself.

British Listed Buildings is a Good Stuff website.