Listed Building record TQ 74 SE 26 - Little Pagehurst, Staplehurst

Summary

Little Pagehurst : Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1532

Location

Grid reference TQ 7710 4328 (point) KNT
Map sheet TQ74SE
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish STAPLEHURST, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TQ 74 SE 136:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST THORN ROAD TQ 74 SE (North side)
3/175 Little Pagehurst 23.5.67 GV II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with later alterations. Timber framed. Most of left end bay and part of right end bay clad with red and grey brick in English bond to ground floor. Rest of front elevation weatherboarded. First floor of left gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of 2 slightly unequal-length timber- framed bays, and with storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and garret. Right and left end bays jettied to front. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Solid-spandrel bracket under central tie-beam end. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right with gablet. Slightly-projecting red and grey brick stack in English bond to left gable end. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of shorter right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded wood mullion windows; one 3-light to left end bay, one 3-light to left hall bay, rising through eaves with flying wall-plate cut away in front of it, one small 2-light over door, and one 2-light to right end bay. Ribbed door with 4-centred-arched head to right end of right hall bay, with blocked 4-centred-arched doorway in rear wall opposite. Rear wing to left, set back from left gable end and with lower ridge; red and grey brick in header bond to ground floor, weatherboarded above, with half-hipped plain tile roof. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7711043288 (1)

Wealden house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. The upper end was extensively rebuilt probably in the 17th century. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040415 LITTLE PAGEHURST, STAPLEHURST File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/663 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Little Pagehurst, Staplehurst


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  • <2> Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.

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Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Medieval Houses Of Kent: Architectural Survey (EKE20338)

Record last edited

Oct 16 2024 1:17PM