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Latitude: 51.1527 / 51°9'9"N
Longitude: 1.1115 / 1°6'41"E
OS Eastings: 617693
OS Northings: 143878
OS Grid: TR176438
Mapcode National: GBR TZN.RTP
Mapcode Global: VHLH7.69Y5
Plus Code: 9F335436+3H
Entry Name: Elven House
Listing Date: 29 December 1966
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1260450
English Heritage Legacy ID: 440605
ID on this website: 101260450
Location: Elham, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, CT4
County: Kent
District: Folkestone and Hythe
Civil Parish: Elham
Built-Up Area: Elham
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Tagged with: House
TR 1643-1743 ELHAM THE SQUARE
(west side)
9/88 Elven House
29.12.66
GV II
Formerly school, now house. 1725, possibly with earlier core, and
with mid-to-late C18 facade. Front elevation red brick in Flemish
bond. Right gable end older brick in Flemish-type bond. Plain tile
roof. 2 storeys. High painted moulded brick plinth, returned along
right gable end. Plat band to right gable end only. Plain brick
eaves band. Roof continuous with The Old Bakery to left, hipped to
right. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end. Irregular
fenestration of three twenty-pane sashes in open boxes, with splayed
rubbed brick voussoirs; one left of stack, and two broadly-spaced
to right, all set well below eaves. Similar windows to ground
floor. Door of six sunk panels under stack. Doric porch with
moulded triangular pediment and slate roof. Two-storey tile-hung
rear-wing to left, with lower ridge than main range, plain tile roof
hipped to rear, and stack to long left side. Rear lean-to to right,
brickwork integral with that of gable end. 1725 datestone to right
gable end. Interior not inspected. House left to the parish by
will of Sir John Williams, dated 1723, to provide for education of
six local poor boys, with land to provide income (C.P.R.K. Elham,
A Village Study, 1968). Formerly known as The Old School House.
Listing NGR: TR1769343878
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