Dent de Lion, Margate

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Garlinge; Daundelyon Court

In the civil parish of Margate.
In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).

C15 gatehouse, the only surviving element of a Medieval manor house. The building is square on plan with stair turrets at the angles and two outer arches. The building is constructed of alternate bands of squared, knapped flints, and bricks, mostly red, but yellow in the turret-tops. Not a fortified building according to King but described as a fortified manor by Guy. Gatehouse does have gun loops and portcullis slot.

This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.
This site is a Grade 2* listed building protected by law*. (Images of England number 356525)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TR33216962

Modern Map from

Good for landscape form and features

Modern Map from

Good for general location

Air Photo from

1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 469147

Books

Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p339-40
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p239 [reject]
Newman, John, 1983, The buildings of England: North east and east Kent (Harmondsworth) p331-2
Guy, John, 1980, Kent Castles (Meresborough Books)
Smithers, David Waldron, 1980, Castles in Kent (Chatham)

Journal Articles

Kenyon, J.R., 1981 'Early Artillery Fortifications in England and Wales: a Preliminary Survey and Re-appraisal' Archaeological Journal Vol138 p227
1977, Fort Vol4 p81
Rev. C. E. Woodruff, 1902, 'Dent-de-Lion Gatehouse, Margate, with a pedigree of the familly of Pettit' Archaeologia Cantiana Vol25 p57-63

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*The listed building may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.

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