Listed Building record TQ 74 NE 42 - Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7902 4803 (point) KNT |
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Map sheet | TQ74NE |
County | KENT |
District | MAIDSTONE, KENT |
Civil Parish | CHART SUTTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Description from record TQ 74 NE 111:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CHART SUTTON GREEN LANE TQ 74 NE [south side} 4/40 Chart Hall Farmhouse 26.4.68 (formerly listed as Chart Bottom Farmhouse) GV II
Farmhouse. Early-to-mid C15 or earlier. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick, first floor exposed framing. Plain tile roof. Wealden; 2-bay open hall with right bay sub-divided by full- height post, and broad storeyed right end bay. 2 storeys and attics. Broadly-spaced studding. Both principal posts of central truss have long cut jowls facing right hall bay. Tension braces to right end bay. Right end bay jettied, jetty formerly returning. Solid braces to flying wall-plate. Bracket beneath central tie-beam and beneath an apparent tie-beam to centre of each hall bay. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of right end bay. Gabled dormer. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows; two 2-light casements to left hall bay, one 3-light casement and one 4-light diamond wood mullion windows to right hall bay, and one 5-light casement to right end bay. Head of tall, narrow durns to right end of right hall bay. Inserted doorway with moulded jambs and 4-centred arched head beneath stack. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7902448038
Dendrochronology dating of the hall and service-end of the wealden house gave a date of 1379/80. (2)
The earliest certain Wealden house recorded of which a formerly open 2-bay hall and lower end survive. The upper end has been demolished but there is evidence that it formerly existed, was of the same date as the hall and was jettied. (3)
Historic England archive material (4)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 22, Pg. 43 (Website). SKE17391.
<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57212.
Sources/Archives (4)
- <1> SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
- <2> SKE17391 Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 22, Pg. 43.
- <3> SKE8010 Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
- <4> SKE57212 Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton, Listed Building.
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Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (2)
- Intrusive Event: Dendrochronology of Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton (EKE11697)
- Non-Intrusive Event: Medieval Houses Of Kent: Architectural Survey (EKE20338)
Record last edited
Oct 22 2024 12:32PM