Port Lympne | |
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Former names | Belcaire |
General information | |
Type | Country House |
Architectural style | Cape Dutch architecture |
Town or city | Lympne |
Country | United Kingdom |
Construction started | 1913 |
Client | Philip Sassoon |
Landlord | The Aspinall Foundation |
Technical details | |
Material | Red Brick |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Herbert Baker, Philip Tilden and others |
Designations | Grade II* listed |
Port Lympne, at Lympne, Kent is an early 20th-century country house built for Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet by Herbert Baker and Philip Tilden. Completed after the First World War. Following Sassoon's death in 1939 it was bequeathed with its contents, including cars and planes, to Hannah Gubbay, his cousin. It was abandoned after the Second World War. In 1973, it was purchased by John Aspinall as part of an expansion of his Port Lympne Zoo. The house is a Grade II* listed building as of 29 December 1966.[1]