Forecourt Garden and Stable Walls to Knowlton Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1986. Garden, walls.
Forecourt Garden and Stable Walls to Knowlton Court
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1986
- Type
- Garden, walls
- Address
- Forecourt Garden and Stable Walls to Knowlton Court, Goodnestone
- OS grid reference
- TR 280 533
- Coordinates
- 51.2335, 1.26549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt garden and stable walls to Knowlton Court are 17th century structures that were rebuilt and extended around 1904 by Reginald Blomfield. The front courtyard measures approximately 50 metres by 50 metres and features a red brick wall about 7 feet high. It includes a simple wrought iron gate and steps leading south to the garden area, as well as wrought gates to the north leading to the stable courtyard. The west wall is about 2 feet high with plain iron rails and central gates, while the gate piers are topped with stone ball finials. The pedestrian gates have smaller, bifurcated foliate overthrows. The central gates are supported by wrought iron piers, featuring central panels of clasped straps and an elaborately bifurcated foliated overthrow.
From the northwest corner of the house, a wall extends to the stable courtyard, which includes two large gate piers with ball finials near the house and a section of wall about 8 feet high. The remainder of the wall is about 6 feet high and extends for approximately 50 metres before sweeping west, rising again to about 8 feet high, and ending at a stable building that is now a garage. This building is one storey with an attic, featuring kneelered gables and a loft door on the right return, along with 20th century garage doors on the ground floor and a one-storey extension to the left, also with a kneelered gable.
To the south and east of Knowlton Court, accessible by the flight of steps from the front courtyard, are semi-formal gardens designed by Blomfield. These gardens include balustraded terraces, flights of steps topped with urn finials, and enclosing walls with gate piers that have scrolled shoulders and ball finials.
Local climate
Forecourt Garden and Stable Walls to Knowlton Court receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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