Listed Building record TQ 74 NE 73 - WIERTON COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1300 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 7805 4974 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NE
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA WIERTON HILL TQ 74 NE (East side)
2/66 Wierton Cottage
23.5.67 II
House. C14 or C15, with C17 and C19 alterations, and C19 facade. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Open hall of, probably, 3 timber-framed bays. Storeyed bay to each end. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Underbuilt gable end jetty to right. Hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof slightly to right of centre (in central timber-framed bay). Truncated projecting brick stack to rear of right end bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; no windows towards left end, three 3-light casements, and one 2-light casement under stack. Panelled door with 2 top lights in reeded architrave, behind half-glazed timber-framed porch under stack. Narrow C19 parallel rear range in stone and brick, with slate roof and 3 stacks. Interior: moulded right end-of-hall beam. Boxed steeply-cambered tie-beam to right-central hall truss. Long cut jowl to principal post of left-central hall truss. Sans-purlin collared common- rafter roof. C17 axial beams to first floor of left end bay and left hall bay. C17 moulded stone fireplace with 4-centred arched bressumer with leaf- spears to spandrels, to right side of stack; plain-chamfered stone fireplace and bressumer to left.
Listing NGR: TQ7806049741


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

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

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Record last edited

Aug 24 2009 3:19PM