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Offline MartinR

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9528 on: January 30, 2024, 12:34:15 PM »
Right, let's try to get it correct this time.  What is the photo of, and where was the camera.  both parts needed.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9527 on: January 30, 2024, 12:24:45 PM »
Sorry, my fault.  the photo wasn't showing because I forgot to add it.  Oops!  It was late and I was hurrying.  Mea culpa.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9526 on: January 30, 2024, 07:13:09 AM »
Photo not showing on my PC
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9525 on: January 29, 2024, 07:36:32 PM »
I came across it, quite literally, driving up the road, following my instincts as to direction. It was a bit of a shock or surprise as it stood there in glorious isolation. There are more modern buildings adjacent now.

That was probably mid 1980s. Ten years later and my wife’s mother and brother moved close by, so we have passed it more frequently.

It seems that there were hedonistic goings on at one time, involving various rock stars, due to the relative isolation of the property and therefore lack of nosey nimbys.

You have it Martin
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9524 on: January 29, 2024, 05:58:40 PM »
Very interesting info MartinR - thank you.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9523 on: January 29, 2024, 04:23:55 PM »
The house is currently called Egerton House, though previously it was Egerton Manor.  The building dates back to medieval times¹ and this is visible in the kitchen/dining room area with its minstrels' gallery and medieval fireplace.  The exterior is an early 19thC addition over the older timber framed house.²

A new wing was added under the auspices of the Cornwallis family in c.1770.  It is not quite clear from conflicting sources whether the claimed 19thC frontage was actually added at this time, some 30 years earlier.  Reference 1 gives an estate agent's view of the property along with interior views.

The official listing for this grade II building locates in "Star and Garter Road", but Google and reference 1 both give the address as Egerton house Road.
Location:
  • Nat Grid:                    TQ901479 / TQ9013347961
  • Nearest Post Code:   TN27 9BD
  • Co-ords (WGS84):     51°11'57.3"N,000°43'11.6"E 51.19922,0.72004

Hasted discussed the parish, but does not mention the house.³

¹https://docslib.org/doc/452501/egerton-house-egerton-kent-egerton-house-reception-rooms
²https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1071528?section=official-list-entry
³https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol7/pp449-455

Footnote:
When I looked at the estate agent's brochure I realised that I had been there some years before.  The gentleman who owned the house at the time was a first class musician and one way he earned money was accompanying higher grade music exams.  One of my sons was in the final for the Kent Musician of the Year and needed an accompanist.   The two of them toddled off into the music room for the rehearsal whilst the lady of the house sat my wife and I down in the kitchen with coffee.  The house is every bit as special as the brochure suggests.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9522 on: January 29, 2024, 11:54:49 AM »
ESE from our last GTP
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9521 on: January 28, 2024, 05:36:54 PM »
On the Greensand Ridge
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9520 on: January 28, 2024, 11:06:18 AM »
Georgian, Grade 2 listed, and the road (lane really) that it stands on is named for the building.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9519 on: January 28, 2024, 11:02:34 AM »
Pass on this one , I'me old enough to remember the shenanigans there.  :)
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9518 on: January 27, 2024, 06:05:02 PM »
OK here is an imposing building, standing with a serious view, possibly more trees now...

There was a hint of 1960s Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll, back in the day.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9517 on: January 27, 2024, 03:05:02 PM »
The Quarries was a nightmare before satnav. Narrow, winding, house names in the bushes, and heaven help you if you met the dustmen! Did many jobs along there, as well as on the delightfully named Bottlescrew Hill.

Back later when at laptop.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9516 on: January 27, 2024, 02:05:26 PM »
Well done JohnFilmer - Over to you again  :)

Thanks for the info MartinR.   the building looks quite out of place now.  I'm guessing it was isolated when it was built.

The ragstone quarry was just north of the village and looks quite extensive in this 1960 view.  All flattened and part built on now.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9515 on: January 27, 2024, 01:02:17 PM »
Without wanting to steal John F's thunder, that certainly looks like the place.  I do like your "Ragstone quarry means Boughton Monchelsea to me", local knowledge is vital!

As John F said, grade II listed:
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House. Early C17 or earlier. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Gable end jetty to left underbuilt in buff brick. Steeply- pitched hipped roof with gablets. Slender projecting buff brick stack towards front of left gable end. Brick ridge stack to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of three 3-light casements. Boarded door with flat bracketed hood under stack. Rear lean-to.

Location information:
  • Nat Grid:                    TQ 76883 51269
  • Nearest Post Code:   ME17 4LE
  • Co-ords (WGS84):     51°13'59"N ,000°31'56"E or 51.23319,0.53223
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9514 on: January 27, 2024, 11:36:52 AM »
Ragstone quarry means Boughton Monchelsea to me.

And, there in Green Lane is the building :)
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