Description

In the entry for- NORTHBOURNE WEST STREET TR 35 SW Finglesham

Finglesham Grange 4/52

The description shall be amended to read:

House. C18 and C19, remodelled C. 1900. Red brick with ashlar dressings, slate roofs except red tile to tower. Two parallel ranges with corner entrance tower and rear wing. Development. The house is in four builds. The main 3 bay front appears to be a perhaps C. 1840 house with a circa 1860 wing added immediately behind it. To the right is the entrance tower added circa 1900, behind this is a wing of the c.1860 build and behind that an C18 cottage.

Exterior Two storeys with plinth and moulded cornice to parapet. Stacks to rear. Projecting entrance porch-cum-tower to right, 4 storeys with timber and glazed top stage and tiled spire. Ground floor of main front has central glazed door, 5 light mullion and transom centred bay to left with baluster parapet, 3 light mullion and transom window to right. Above 2 light indoor flank single light one, pedimented heads . These dressings and the parapet appear to be additions of c.1900. Tower has projecting porch with moulded 4 centred arched doorway at head of half landing and flight of steps. First floor a venetian type window, second floor a 4 light mullion and transom window. Other elevations very plain with sash windows in segmental heads. C18 wing has 2 sliding sashes above a modern window.

Interior The more elaborated rooms are new Jacobean of c.1900 but some plain earlier room survive. Stairhall with open-well stair, turned balusters, ramped handrail and dado rail with pilasters supporting ceiling fringe. Otherwise there is contemprary joinery, dado panelling, panelled inglenook recesses with lugged fire surrounds and moulded geometric ceilings. Interior of C 18 wing entirely modernized.

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NORTHBOURNE WEST STREET TR 35 SW Finglesham

4/52 Finglesham Grange

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House. Mid C19 rebuilding around a C17 core. Red brick with ashlar dressings and wooden tower. Slate roof. Two parallel ranges with rear wing. Two storeys and basement with plinth and moulded cornice to parapet. Stacks to rear. Projecting entrance porch - cum - tower at right, with open arcaded wooden top stage with spire. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows of mullion round headed lights with pediments and shell hoods on first floor, and mullioned and transomed windows with central French door on ground floor, and canted bay with balusters to left. Tower with mullioned and transomed second floor window and Venetian window on first floor above projecting porch with moulded four-centred arched doorway, at head of half-landing and flight of steps. Rear wings half-hipped, partly painted, and probably earlier. Interior: sales particulars photograph (1984) show dado panelled rooms, panelled inglenook recesses with lugged fire surrounds, moulded geometric ceilings and spacious stair hall, with open well stair, turned balusters, ramped hand- rail, and dado rail with pilasters supporting ceiling frieze, all apparently C19. Occupied by the Master of West Street Hunt, and used by the 1st Duke of Wellington as a hunting lodge.

Listing NGR: TR3297154169

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