Listed Building: BISHOPS (1250689)
Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1804, 3, 215 |
Date assigned | 25 July 1952 |
Date last amended |
Description
AVERY LANE TQ 75 SE OTHAM (North Side) 3/215 Bishops 25.7.52 II
House. C15 or early C16, with C19 additions. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, of 2 unequal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and attic. Broadly-spaced studding. Ogee tension braces to right and left end bays. Right and left end bays jettied, jetties returning on plain dragon-posts. Inserted hall floor formerly jettied; jetty removed from left hall bay in early C20 and underbuilt to right. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick ridge stack in front slope of roof, to left hall bay. Rear stack to left and projecting brick stack to right gable end. 2 gabled dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded windows; one canted 6-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on central carved and shaped bracket to left end bay, one to right hall bay, and one 4-light casement to right end bay. One 3-light diamond mullion ground-floor window to left end bay. Boarded door in hollow-chamfered 4-centred arched architrave to left end of hall. Timber-framed rear return wing to left. Late C19 timber-framed rear wing to centre, with 2 gables to its long right side. Interior not inspected, but said to contain brattished crown post.
Listing NGR: TQ8006252650
External Links (0)
Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 8006 5264 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ85SW |
Civil Parish | OTHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 1:22PM