St Albans Court Nonington, England
Listed Building Data
St Albans Court has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1070242
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 13 October 1952
- Name
- ST ALBANS COURT
- Location
- ST ALBANS COURT, ST ALBANS COURT
- Parish
- Nonington
- District
- Dover
- County
- Kent
- Grid Reference
- TR 26357 52640
- Easting
- 626357.3640
- Northing
- 152640.3640
Listed Building Description
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NONINGTON ST.ALBANS COURT TR 25 SE 3/157 St.Albans Court 13.10.52 GV I Country mansion. 1875-78 by George Devey for William Oxenden Hammond. Ragstone ground floor with brick upper floor with ragged edge between the two. Limestone dressings. Planned round 3 sides of north courtyard. Elizabethan style of picturesque irregularity with tall clusters of polygonal stacks, straight sided gables and bay windows, partly semi-circular and partly polygonal. Main entrance in north U-shaped courtyard through four-centred doorway with dripstone and spandrels in the centre bay of 3 gabled bays with polygonal tower with castellated parapet to south west. Semi-circular oriel bay window with parapet above entrance doorway. S.W. front with 1:2:1 gables with storeyed semi-circular bay window in front of truncated northernmost gable with adjoining chimney breast to north and with 8 light canted and storeyed bay window in front of southernmost gable.S.E. elevation with large gable on south and beyond it a stone doorway then 5 gables to north east, the left hand one truncated by a chimney breast and with the lofty transomed and mullioned semi-circular bay window with pierced parapet to hall rising at the junction between the first and second of 5 gables. North-easternmost gabled bay projects forward. Set back and to the north east are service wings with full height gabled bay and tower at north-east end. Interior; internal features of interest include 2 storey hall beyond entrance hall; this has gallery on first floor. Panelled walls with stairs rising through lofty basket arched doorway on the north west side; ornate Jacobean fireplace from Northbourne Court adjoining lofty bow window. Elsewhere, ribbed ceiling panels, panelled walls; fireplace surrounds;doors etc. Panelled dining room with fine chimney piece from Northbourne Court. The best of Devey's later houses. (see Country Life, April 8 1971; see also M. Girouard, The Victorian Country House,1979; see also B.O.E.Kent II,1983,404-5)
Listing NGR: TR2635752640
