Description

DIBDEN PROSPECT PLACE, HYTHE SU 40 NW 9/7 The Drummond Arms 16.9.77

GV II

Hotel. Mid C19. Rusticated stone ground-floor with precise grooved jointing, including keys to flat arches, stone first floor band supporting the Order, upper walls of yellow brickwork in Flemish bond, pilasters with moulded stone caps and bases, supporting a brick entablature with a stone cornice above brick dentils, blocking course stepped in the middle part with a central stone gable (containing a shield), rubbed flat arches, stone cills on brackets and balusters below the 1st floor openings. Low-pitched hipped slate roof. Classical design, with a symmetrical north-east front elevation of three storeys, 1.3.1 windows. There are pilasters marking the projecting of the centrepiece, at each side, and returned at each corner. Sashes in reveals. Stone doorways at the 2nd and 4th bays, with cornice and frieze on console brackets, above a flight of three stone steps flanked by plain iron walls. In front of the building a moulded stone curb supports cast-iron columns, linked by plain rails, curved inwards at each side. The rear of the building has later extensions and on the east side is a single-storeyed wing (of later date but continuous style), which extends along the side of Pylewell Road as plain blocks (of former stables).

Listing NGR: SU4232208098

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings