Listed Building: WIERTON COTTAGE (1049074)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1415, 2, 66
Date assigned 23 May 1967
Date last amended

Description

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA WIERTON HILL TQ 74 NE (East side) 2/66 Wierton Cottage 23.5.67 II House. C14 or C15, with C17 and C19 alterations, and C19 facade. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Open hall of, probably, 3 timber-framed bays. Storeyed bay to each end. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Underbuilt gable end jetty to right. Hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof slightly to right of centre (in central timber-framed bay). Truncated projecting brick stack to rear of right end bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; no windows towards left end, three 3-light casements, and one 2-light casement under stack. Panelled door with 2 top lights in reeded architrave, behind half-glazed timber-framed porch under stack. Narrow C19 parallel rear range in stone and brick, with slate roof and 3 stacks. Interior: moulded right end-of-hall beam. Boxed steeply-cambered tie-beam to right-central hall truss. Long cut jowl to principal post of left-central hall truss. Sans-purlin collared common- rafter roof. C17 axial beams to first floor of left end bay and left hall bay. C17 moulded stone fireplace with 4-centred arched bressumer with leaf- spears to spandrels, to right side of stack; plain-chamfered stone fireplace and bressumer to left. Listing NGR: TQ7806049741

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7805 4974 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NE
Civil Parish BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM