Listed Building: APPIN MOR AND OLD PLACE (1367117)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1674, 7, 141
Date assigned 23 March 1983
Date last amended

Description

SUTTON VALENCE LOWER ROAD TQ 8049-8149 (south side) 7/141 23.3.83 Old Place and Appin Mor GV II House, now house row. C15 or early C16 with late C16/early C17 alterations, and alterations and extensions of c.1900 and c.1930. Timber framed. Ground floor of main range clad with chequered red and grey brick. Ground floor of left wing coursed galletted stone. Rest exposed close-studding with plaster infilling. 2 arch-braces to hall range. Plain tile roof. Main range of 3 timber-framed bays, probably a 2-bay hall with storeyed bay to left. Late C16/early C17 cross-wing to right end, projecting to rear. Cross wing added to left end c. 1930. Hall range 1½ storeys, wings 2 storeys and attics. First floor of right wing formerly jettied on moulded bressumer, underbuilt with applied close-studding. Attic of each wing jettied on moulded and brattished bressumer and shaped brackets, with carved bargeboards and pendants. Roof discontinuous between left wing and hall range; latter half-hipped to left. Multiple brick ridge stack in front slope of roof towards right end of hall range. Ridge stack towards rear of left wing and stack to right side of right wing. Two C20 semi-dormers to hall-range, to left gabled with barge boards and brackets, to right flat-roofed. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows, excluding dormers; two 3-light leaded casements to left wing and three ovolo-moulded wood mullion windows to right wing. C20 timber and brick porch with ribbed door, up 3 steps to right end of hall. Moulded 4-centred-arched late C16/early C17 inner doorway with hollow spandrels embedded in wall to left end of hall range. Interior: 2 first-floor fireplaces, one moulded stone, one chamfered brick. Shaped bracket to right of porch. Common rafter roof to left end hall range with lapped collars. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces to right wing. Venetian window to rear of right wing and mullioned window to side. Listing NGR: TQ8114249180

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 8114 4918 (point)
Map sheet TQ84NW
Civil Parish SUTTON VALENCE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM