Listed Building record TQ 74 NE 84 - OLD NEWSTEAD

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST COUCHMAN GREEN TQ 74 NE LANE (East side)
2/83 Old Newstead
II
Farmhouse, now house. C16 or earlier, with early C17 and late C18 additions and alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond, first floor tile-hung. Both floors of left end bay tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Open hall, possibly with one storeyed end-bay missing, running east-west. Early C17 addition of approximately 2 timber-framed bays, running south from west end. Late C18 single bay addition to south end of C17 section. East elevation: south wing 2 storeys and garret, east wing 2 storeys. Slightly higher eaves and ridge to south wing, with half- hipped roof to south end. East wing gabled and weatherboarded to east. Red and grey brick stack in English bond to rear (west) of C18 addition. Multiple red and grey brick stack in rear (west) slope of roof of C17 section towards junction with earlier range. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows; two 3-light casements to south wing, one flanked by 4-light wood mullion windows with diamond subsidiary mullions. One 2-light casement to east wing. Boarded door towards centre of south wing. Lean-to to east gable end of east wing. 2-storey addition to north side of east wing, with rendered ground floor, tile-hung first floor, gabled plain-tile roof and one 3-light casement. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as Newstead Farm. Formerly a moated site.
Listing NGR: TQ7928145092 (1)

A timber framed building with two formerly open bays thought to have been a detached kitchen rather than an open hall. There were were alterations and extensions in the 17th century which converted the building into a more complete house. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040420 OLD NEWSTEAD, 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. RCH01/048/01/664 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Old Newstead, Staplehurst, showing the main bay divisions

<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.