Listed Building record TQ 83 SE 260 - BARN IN GROUNDS OF SMALLHYTHE PLACE

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 1715 SMALLHYTHE ROAD (East Side)
Barn in Grounds of Smallhythe Place TQ 83 SE 3/84A
II GV
2. This was fitted up as a theatre by Edith Craig after Ellen Terry's death. 1 storey timber-framed and plastered with a half-hipped thatched roof with weatherboarded gable.
Smallhythe Place and Barn form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ8934230146
(1)

Additonal bibliography. (2)

Building survey undertaken by Archaeology South East in 2005. Three main phases of construction. Built in the mid-late C17, as a four-bay single-aisled building with an adjoining lean-to at the eastern end. The first floor may have been partitioned at the eastern end. In the C19 this floor partitioning (if it existed) was removed. Additionally a further lean-to was added to the southern wall, and an open-fronted shelter was added to the west of this. The eastern lean-to was demolished in the late C19. Further small additions were made throughout the C20. (3)

A watching brief undertaken by Archaeology South East in 2004 during the installation of new audience seating in the barn reavealed probable C19 and C20 floor surfaces, and a possible medieval layer. (3)

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

<2> Archaeology South-East, 2005, Archaeological and Historic Landscape Survey, Smallhythe Place Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16623.

<3> Archaeology South-East, 2005, An Archaeological Interpretative Survey of The Barn at Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17051.