Belle Vue House Belle Vue House And Flats

TR13 NW LYMPNE ALDINGTON ROAD (North Side)

3/4 Belle-Vue House and 10.10.74 Flats (formerly listed as Lympne Country Club)

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House, formerly Country Club, now house and flats. Early C18, possibly with earlier core. Alterations and additions 1909. Front elevation roughly coursed stone with brick window dressings to ground floor, red brick with vitreous headers in a mixed bond toX first floor. Right return elevation stone to ground floor, red brick in Flemish bond above. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Right return elevation has brick plat band and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Hipped roof, right hip returning. Rear stacks to left and right. Central brick ridge stack and 2 gable end stacks to right. Irregular fenestration of 5 slightly-recessed sashes; one 12-pane, one 8-pane, one wood mullion window comprising two 12-pane sashes, and two tripartite sashes. Similar ground-floor windows, but 1909 bow windows under tripartite sashes. Splayed rectangular window with 2 iron bars to left gable end (ground floor). Half-glazed door under stack with moulded rounded hood on consoles and with panelled architrave. Datestone 1706 over door (possibly re-set). Short rear return wing to right, with panelled door of 1909 under Doric porch. Later rear range parallel to front. C19 rear service wing to left. Doric colonnades of 1909 to garden front. Interior: partly inspected. Fragments of C18 cornice and panelling. Staggered butt-purlin roof. General Sir John Moore lived here while in command of troops training at Shorncliffe Camp 1803-1806.

Listing NGR: TR1098235196