Listed Building: QUARRY HOUSE (1344366)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1415, 1, 59
Date assigned 23 May 1967
Date last amended

Description

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA THE QUARRIES TQ 75 SE (North side) 1/59 No. 49 (Quarry House) (formerly listed as Nos 49 and 23.5.67 51) II House, formerly cottages, now house. Later C16, with late C16 or early C17 addition to right and with C20 alterations. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Ground floor of right end bay and of left gable end rebuilt in stone. Mid- to-late C16 lobby-entry plan house of 2 timber-framed bays to left of stack bay and one to right; the left end bay altered or renewed in C17. Two further timber-framed bays of unequal length added to right in late C16 or early C17. 2 storeys, attic and cellars on stone plinth. Broadly-spaced studding. 2 tension braces to left end and one of thin scantling to right end. Half- hipped roof. Wall-plates at right end project, carrying verges up to jettied half hip. Brick ridge stack towards centre. Truncated stack with slender projecting stone base to right gable end. 2 gabled dormers. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 2-light and three 3-light, some with pegged cills. Blocked 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with diamond subsidiary mullions to bay to right of stack. Blocked door under stack, half-glazed door towards left end, and ribbed door under canopy to right of centre. Short rendered rear return wing to left and similar but lower rear wing to right of stack. Rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Mortices for diamond mullion windows in both sections of house. Central stack with 2 stone fireplaces to ground floor and 2 to first floor, one moulded, rest plain chamfered, all but one with wooden bressumers. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces, and diminishing principal rafters. Vertical queen-struts to collars to former right gable end of left section. Heavier-scantling timber to left section. Listing NGR: TQ7721951707

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7721 5170 (point)
Map sheet TQ75SE
Civil Parish BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM