Listed Building: MALMAINS FARMHOUSE AND SHAREBORNE HOUSE AND WALL ATTACHED (1263941)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1410, 6, 137
Date assigned 13 October 1952
Date last amended

Description

TILMANSTONE WALDERSHARE TR 24 NE 6/137 Malmains Farmhouse and Shareborne House and 13.10.52 wall attached (formerly listed under Parish of Sutton) GV II* House, now house pair. Late C15, altered and extended mid C17 and c.1800. Timber framed and exposed close-studding with plaster infill, underbuilt with painted brick, and extended with rendered brick. Plain tiled roof. Originally a hall house plan. Two storeys, probably originally jettied, with roof hipped to left, with stacks to centre left and end right, with a shaped gable, and projecting to centre right. Projecting return elevation of c.1800 wing to left, with 1 glazing bar sash on each floor, with 1 wooden casement, horizontal glazing bar sash and 2 glazing bar sashes on first floor of timber framed range, and 2 glazing bar sashes and central wooden casement on ground floor, with boarded doors to left and to right. The left hand wing with main entrance on left return: 2 storeys with parapet to hipped roof with stack to rear, with 2 margin light sashes and central glazing bar sash on first floor, and 2 margin light sashes on ground floor with central 6 panelled door in fluted Doric porch. A wall of flint, rubble and brick projects from the centre left of main elevation, about 6 feet high, and extending about 15 metres. Interior: hall house, with ovolo moulded arch braced tie beams, and crown post roof reported. Hall ceiled either late C16 or mid C17, with the addition of rear wing with shaped gable in red brick in English bond. Inglenook with curved timber screen surviving on one side. C18 doors and fittings survive. Frame generally of good scantling and moulded detail. The house was the principal seat of the Monins family, and the manor house until Sir Henry Furnese purchased the estate and built Waldershare Park c.1705. (See Hasted, X, 1800, pp. 50-54). Listing NGR: TR2981649135

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  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Location

Grid reference TR 2981 4913 (point)
Map sheet TR24NE
Civil Parish TILMANSTONE, DOVER, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 17 2006 11:07AM