Great Everden is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Great Everden
- WRENN ID
- carved-fireplace-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 18th centuries up to the late 20th century. It is timber-framed and clad, and has been extended using rubble with flint galleting and red brick in English bond, with sections rendered and areas of tile hanging and weather boarding. The roof is tiled. Originally a hall house, it now includes an 18th-century wing.
The front elevation has a flint plinth, a double-span roof, and stacks on either side. It features three wooden casements on the first floor and two with segmental heads on the ground floor, with a canted bay to the left. The central left entrance has a six-panel wooden door, the top two panels glazed, with a flat hood supported by brackets. An outshot is located to the right. On the return elevation, an exposed wall shows dressed stone and rubble with flint galleting within the outshot. The flint plinth is covered with 16th-century brickwork, and the rear elevation features flint and stone walling, with further English bond brickwork on the rear right return, along with several small brick mullioned windows. The rear of the main range has a hip roof with gablets, and the right return has 20th-century windows – five wooden casements on each floor.
The interior features large timbers, an internal partition, and an inglenook fireplace. There is also a row of four arched doorways in a ground-floor corridor. The layout of these doorways along the building's long axis suggests a non-domestic origin. Local tradition suggests the building may have been a leprosy hospital linked to the Knights of St. John commandery at Swingfield, later serving as a manorial site named after a branch of the Avranches family who lived there until 1688, originally known as Evering.
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