Description

TR 03 SE ALDINGTON GIGGERS GREEN ROAD
(south side)
7/38 Goldenhurst,
the Old House
(formerly listed
27.11.57
as part of
Goldenhurst
Farm)
GV II
House. C16 or earlier. Timber framed and exposed close studding with
plaster infill, and part clad with red brick. Plain tiled roof. Two
parallel ranges. The southern range of 1 storey and attic with hipped
roof and gablets, 3 hipped dormers and stack cluster to rear left, and
stacks to rear centre and rear right. Four light mullioned window
and hipped porch to right with boarded door. The rear range of 2
storeys with tile hanging, and pendant gable is the original house
range, the present entrance front a former barn, converted for Noel
Coward, who ran house, barn and adjoining cottage together as a single
dwelling 1927-30, now 2 houses (see Goldenhurst Manor). Coward lived
here 1926-56, his main residence outside London and Switzerland.
(See Present Indicative, 1937, N. Coward). 'Cavalcade' was written
here, 1931.

Listing NGR: TR0686234786

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26326239

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Recommended Books

• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6