Listed Building: STONELEES (1233761)
Grade | II* |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1414, 6, 143 |
Date assigned | 27 November 1957 |
Date last amended |
Description
TR 03 NW MERSHAM LAWS LANE (east side)
6/143 Stonelees
27.11.57 II*
House. C15, rebuilt C16. Timber framed and exposed panelled framing on ground floor with red brick infill, and close-studding on 1st floor with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Cross-passage plan of 4 bays with smoke bay, incorporating service wing of earlier hall house. Two storeys.on plinth, with continuous jetty on brackets, that to end right bay separately framed with renewed dragon post. Hipped roof with gablets and stack cluster to left. Three light mullioned windows to left and oriel to right with enriched pendant frame (C20?). Four mullioned upper chamber windows to centre right. Leaded C20 mullioned wooden casements to ground floor. Four centred arched doorway with enriched spandrels to centre right with C16 15 panelled door. The end right bay is framed entirely separately from the rest of the building, the main posts to right of door being duplicated, the 2 ranges literally strapped together with bifurcated iron ties. Interior: 2 depressed arched doorways to service wing with fernleaf- enriched spandrels and with moulded ship-lap doors. Double bead and fillet moulded cross-beamed ceiling, with beaded dais beam, and 2 depressed arched doors to right (rear) of stack, leading to parlour and stair, both with rose-enriched spandrels. Four centred arched wooden chimney bressumer with thistle and fernleaf and banded enrichment. Parlour with beaded beams and joists. Upper floor with enrichea spandrels to doors, enriched chimney bresummer. Roof with cambered chamfered tie beams (originally with crown posts?). Stack inserted into smoke bay. Duplicated framing to end bay (the main range represents a C16 rebuild of earlier hall and parlour wing which the sevice end still survives).
Listing NGR: TR0450837281
External Links (0)
Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 0450 3728 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR03NW |
Civil Parish | MERSHAM, ASHFORD, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 17 2006 9:59AM