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Country Houses of Kent
by Arthur Oswald
published by Country Life Ltd. in 1933
Book Content
Book cover:
Frontispiece:
Contents:
Alphabetical List of Houses:
Introduction:
Chapter I - Some Castles of Kent: p. 1
Chapter II - Mediaeval and Early Tudor Houses: p. 12
Chapter III - The Kentish Yeoman's Dwelling: p. 21
Chapter IV - Penshurst and Knole: p. 28
Chapter V - Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses: p. 36
Chapter VI - The 17th Century & The Influence of Inigo Jones in Kent: p. 47
Chapter VII - 18th Century Houses: p. 54
Chapter VIII - From 1800 to the Present Day: p. 67
List of Houses open to the public & Books of reference: p. 69
Index: p. 71
Illustrations
The County of Kent:
Plate 1 - Leeds Castle - "The Enchanted Castle":
Plate 2 - Lullingstone Castle - the gatehouse:
Plate 3 - Dover Castle - "The Key of England":
Plate 4 - Dover Castle - from the north:
Plate 5 - Dover Castle - aerial view:
Plate 6 - Dover Castle - Constable's Tower:
Plate 7 - Dover Castle - Peverell's Gate:
Plate 8 - Dover Castle - the fore-building of the keep:
Plate 9 - Dover Castle - Upper Chapel:
Plate 10 - Rochester Castle - The Keep:
Plate 11 - Rochester Castle - Norman Arches:
Plate 12 - Chilham Castle - Norman Keep:
Plate 13 - Chilham Castle - the covered well:
Plate 14 - Leeds Castle - from the north-west:
Plate 15 - Leeds Castle - from the north-east:
Plate 16 - Leeds Castle - Pons Gloriettae:
Plate 17 - Leeds Castle - the bridge approach:
Plate 18 - Cooling Castle - the entrance:
Plate 19 - Tonbridge Castle - the fortified gatehouse:
Plate 20 - Allington Castle - the entrance:
Plate 21 - Allington Castle - looking through the entrance:
Plate 22 - Allington Castle - the machiocolated gatehouse:
Plate 23 - Allington Castle - Solomon's Tower:
Plate 24 - Scotney Castle - an enchanted setting:
Plate 25 - Scotney Castle - the tower:
Plate 26 - Scotney Castle - the tower:
Plate 27 - Scotney Castle - the bridge, tower and mansion:
Plate 28 - Hever Castle - home of Anne Boleyn:
Plate 29 - Hever Castle - from the west:
Plate 30 - Lympne Castle - the retreat of the Archdeacons of Canterbury:
Plate 31 - Lympne Castle - the church:
Plate 32 - Lympne Castle - from the south-west:
Plate 33 - Lympne Castle - the great hall:
Plate 34 - Lympne Castle - the king-post bedroom:
Plate 35 - Walmer Castle - from the air:
Plate 36 - Walmer Castle - the walls:
Plate 37 - Walmer Castle - the entrance bastion:
Plate 38 - Walmer Castle - Duke of Wellington's room:
Plate 39 - Walmer Castle - Queen Victoria's bedroom:
Plate 40 - Old Soar - early fortified manor house:
Plate 41 - Old Soar - from the east:
Plate 42 - Old Soar - the solar:
Plate 43 - Nurstead Court - reconstruction of the hall:
Plate 44 - Nurstead Court - drawing by W. Twopeny:
Plate 45 - Ightham Mote:
Plate 46 - Ightham Mote - from the north:
Plate 47 - Ightham Mote - looking into the courtyard:
Plate 48 - Ightham Mote - the gate-tower:
Plate 49 - Ightham Mote - the back of the house:
Plate 50 - Ightham Mote - the Tudor Chapel:
Plate 51 - Ightham Mote - the 14th century hall:
Plate 52 - Eltham Palace - the great hall:
Plate 53 - Eltham Palace - the great hammer-beam roof:
Plate 54 - Hall Place, Bexley - the Tudor front:
Plate 55 - Hall Place, Bexley - flint and chalk chequerwork:
Plate 56 - Hall Place, Bexley - from the west:
Plate 57 - Boughton Malherbe - the birthplace of Sir Henry Wotton:
Plate 58 - Boughton Malherbe - the Tudor oriel:
Plate 59 - The Friars, Aylesford - the gatehouse:
Plate 60 - The Friars, Aylesford - the inner side of the gatehouse:
Plate 61 - The Friars, Aylesford - the back of the house:
Plate 62 - The Friars, Aylesford - in the courtyard:
Plate 63 - The Friars, Aylesford - the riverside building:
Plate 64 - The Friars, Aylseford - an old monastic range:
Plate 65 - Davington Priory:
Plate 66 - Sturry - on the River Stour:
Plate 67 - Sturry Court - Tudor gateway:
Plate 68 - Sturry Court - the great barn:
Plate 69 - Northbourne Court - the barn:
Plate 70 - Northbourne Court - the Jacobean garden:
Plate 71 - Northbourne Court - interior of the barn:
Plate 72 - Stoneacre, Otham:
Plate 73 - Wardes, Otham - Edward III house:
Plate 74 - Wardes, Otham - the parlour:
Plate 75 - Link Farm, Egerton - a Kentish yeoman's house:
Plate 76 - Synyards, Otham:
Plate 77 - The Old Hall, Sundridge - the hall:
Plate 78 - The Old Hall, Sundridge - before restoration:
Plate 79 - Kite House, Monks Horton:
Plate 80 - Sole Street, Cobham:
Plate 81 - Stoneacre - 15th century fireplace:
Plate 82 - The Old Hall, Sundridge - the old hearth stone:
Plate 83 - Kite House, Monks Horton - the chimney:
Plate 84 - Wardes, Otham - interior of the hall:
Plate 85 - Stoneacre - the hall:
Plate 86 - Sole Street, Cobham - the hall roof:
Plate 87 - Stoneacre - the king-post bedroom:
Plates 88, 89 & 90 - Kite House, Monks Horton and Link Farm, Egerton:
Plate 91 - Stoneacre - from the east:
Plate 92 - Wilsley House, Cranbrook - built by a Wealden clothier:
Plate 93 - Wilsley House, Cranbrook - the hall:
Plate 94 - Wilsley House, Cranbrook - the painted room:
Plate 95 - Penshurst - the west side of the house:
Plate 96 - Penshurst - the north side of the hall:
Plate 97 - Penshurst - in the courtyard:
Plate 98 - Penshurst - inside the great hall:
Plate 99 - Penshurst - the porch:
Plate 100 - Penshurst - the lily pool and southwest tower:
Plate 101 - Penshurst - Queen Elizabeth's room:
Plate 102 - Penshurst - the gallery:
Plate 103 - Knole - the west front:
Plate 104 - Knole - from the north:
Plate 105 - Knole - the gate tower:
Plate 106 - Knole - Stone Court:
Plate 107 - Knole - the south front:
Plate 108 - Knole - the hall:
Plate 109 - Knole - the great staircase:
Plate 110 - Knole - the great staircase:
Plate 111 - Knole - the Brown Gallery:
Plate 112 - Knole - the Cartoon Gallery:
Plate 113 - Knole - chimneypiece in the Cartoon Gallery:
Plate 114 - Knole - King James's bedroom:
Plate 115 - Cobham Hall - the north wing:
Plate 116 - Cobham Hall - the porch:
Plate 117 - Cobham Hall - chimneypiece in the picture gallery:
Plate 118 - Franks - built in 1590:
Plate 119 - Franks - the hall and screen:
Plate 120 - Quebec House, Westerham - General Wolfe's boyhood home:
Plate 121 - Knowlton Court - home of Dorothy Osbourne:
Plate 122 - Knowlton Court - the south-west corner:
Plate 123 - East Sutton Park - the home of the Filmers:
Plate 124 - Somerhill - the stable court:
Plate 125 - Somerhill - as painted by Turner in 1811:
Plates 126 & 127 - Charlton House - floor plans:
Plate 128 - Somerhill - draft plan:
Plate 129 - Chilham Castle - early plan:
Plate 130 - Somerhill - the west front:
Plate 131 - Charlton House - the west front:
Plate 132 - Chilham Castle - the Jacobean house:
Plate 133 - Chilham Castle - view towards the River Stour:
Plate 134 - Chilham Castle - from the east:
Plate 135 - Chilham Castle - yews:
Plate 136 - Charlton House - the saloon chimneypiece:
Plates 137 & 138 - Charlton House - chimneypieces:
Plates 139 & 140 - Chilham Castle - chimneypieces:
Plates 141 & 142 - Chilham Castle - staircases:
Plate 143 - Godington - built by Nicholas Toke in 1628:
Plate 144 - Surrenden Dering - built in the time of Charles I:
Plate 145 - Broome Park - an example of Carolean brickwork:
Plate 146 - Broome Park - the grounds circa 1720:
Plate 147 - Chevening - the original elevation:
Plate 148 - Cobham Hall - the centre block:
Plate 149 - The Queen's House, Greenwich - the earliest Palladian house in England:
Plate 150 - Lees Court, Faversham - the great façade:
Plate 151 - Lees Court, Faversham - ascribed to Inigo Jones:
Plate 152 - Lees Court, Faversham - the southward vista:
Plate 153 - Groombridge Place - built by Philip Packer in Charles II's reign:
Plate 154 - Groombridge Place - "The house built within a moate in a woody valley":
Plate 155 - Groombridge Place - the classical loggia:
Plate 156 - Groombridge Place - the perfect English house:
Plate 157 - Eltham Lodge - built by Sir John Shaw in 1663-4:
Plate 158 - Squerries, Westerham - a typical Charles II house:
Plate 159 - Eltham Lodge - carved panel:
Plate 160 - Eltham Lodge - staircase balustrade:
Plate 161 - The Friars, Aylesford - the ballroom:
Plate 162 - Hall Place, Bexley - the drawing room ceiling:
Plate 163 - Mereworth Castle - a Palladian villa built by John Fane in 1720-30:
Plate 164 - "La Rotonda":
Plate 165 - Mereworth Castle - Colin Campbell's English version of Palladio's Rotonda:
Plate 166 - Mereworth Castle - ceiling of the shell room:
Plate 167 - Mereworth Castle - fresco painting in the loggia:
Plate 168 - Mereworth Castle - the central domed hall:
Plate 169 - Mereworth Castle - the long gallery:
Plate 170 - Chevening - the south front across the lake:
Plate 171 - Chevening - looking down on the north front:
Plate 172 - Chevening - 18th century wrought-iron gate:
Plate 173 - Chevening - the tapestry room:
Plate 174 - Chevening - the great staircase:
Plate 175 - Godmersham Park - at the end of the 18th century:
Plate 176 - Godmersham Park - the hall:
Plate 177 - Fairlawne - the west side of the house:
Plate 178 - Fairlawne - the yew trees planted in 1684:
Plate 179 - Lullingstone Castle - a Tudor house in Queen Anne dress:
Plate 180 - Lullingstone Castle - the state drawing room:
Plate 181 - Bourne Park - a Queen Anne house:
Plate 182 - Barham Court - early 18th century red brick front:
Plate 183 - Bourne Parke - the east front:
Plate 184 - Westwell, Tenterden - built by James Blackmore in 1711:
Plate 185 - West Farleigh Hall - the house is dated as 1719:
Plate 186 - Bradbourne, Larkfield - the south side of the house:
Plate 187 - Bradbourne, Larkfield - the west front:
Plate 188 - Finchcocks - built by Edward Bathurst in 1725:
Plate 189 - Matfield House - dated as 1728:
Plate 190 - Finchcocks - the hall:
Plate 191 - West Farleigh Hall - the entrance hall and gallery:
Plate 192 - Bradbourne - the staircase:
Plate 193 - Bourne Park - the staircase:
Plate 194 - Bourne Park - detail of the staircase and ballusters:
Plates 195, 196 & 197 - Bradbourne, Ovenden & West Farleigh Hall - doorways:
Plate 198 - Merstham-Le-Hatch - the northeast front of the house built between 1762 and 1772:
Plate 199 - Merstham-Le-Hatch - the hall:
Plate 200 - Brasted Place - built by Robert Adam:
Plate 201 - Brasted Place - detail of the entablature:
Plate 202 - Lee Priory - the earliest Gothic Revival house in Kent (1783):
Plate 203 - Scotney Castle - the new house built in 1837:
Plate 204 - The Red House, Upton - built by Philip Webb in 1859:
Plate 205 - The Red House, Upton - the southeast angle and well:
Plate 206 - Great Maytham - one of Sir Edwin Lutyens' finest country houses:
Plate 207 - The Salutation, Sandwich - designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens:
Plate 208 - Port Lympne - Sir Philip Sassoon's house overlooking Romney Marsh:
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Plate 147 - Chevening - the original elevation
Plate 170 - Chevening - the south front across the lake
Plate 171 - Chevening - looking down on the north front
Plate 172 - Chevening - 18th century wrought-iron gate
Plate 173 - Chevening - the tapestry room
Plate 174 - Chevening - the great staircase
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