Listed Building record TQ 84 SW 163 - HEADCORN MANOR

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1516 to 1999 16th century parsonage now house.

Location

Grid reference TQ 8312 4422 (point)
Map sheet TQ84SW
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish HEADCORN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

Description from record TQ 84 SW 8 :
[TQ 83124423] Headcorn Manor a spectacular restored Wealden house, built after 1516 as the parsonage. (1) [TQ 83124423] Headcorn Manor [NAT] (2) Headcorn Manor. Grade II* (formerly listed as the Old Vicarage), Church Walk. Parsonage, now a house. Circa 1516, restored in the 20th century, Wealdon house. (3)(4) Additional bibliography. (5)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEADCORN CHURCH WALK TQ 8344 (South side) 10/45 Headcorn Manor [Formerly listed as the Old 20.10.52 Vicarage)
GV II*
Parsonage, now house. Circa 1516, restored in C20. Timber framed with plaster infilling and plain tile roof. Wealden with 2 roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed bay to each end. 2 storeys and attic. Right and left end bays jettied to front and to gable ends. Right end bay also jettied to rear, left end bay projects: either unjettied or underbuilt. Moulded dragon posts to front, plain to rear to right. Every elevation close-studded. Solid bracket under each end of central tie-beam. Solid- spandrel brackets to front and rear flying wall-plates. Steeply pitched hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of hall. Gabled dormer to left hip. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 4-light wooden mullioned canted oriel window to each end bay with shaped bracket under and cinquefoil-headed lights. 2-storey canted bay with close-studded sides and solid bracket to base, to right end of left hall bay with 4-light wooden mullioned window to each floor, with cinquefoil-headed lights and daggers. 2-light wooden mullioned window to right hall bay, with cinquefoil-headed lights and trefoils. Similar 2-storey canted bay and 2-light window to rear elevation of hall. 2-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned window to rear of left hall bay and diamond mullioned window to rear of right end room. Boarded door to right end of hall with moulded 4-centred arched architrave with carved roses to spandrels and moulded brattished bressumer over. Similar but less elaborate door opposite to rear. Interior: Moulded end- of-hall beams, that to left end brattished. Short moulded spears beside front and rear doors, possibly removed from left end of hall. Three 4- centred arched service doors to right end of hall, that to centre with roses to spandrels, leading to stairs. Moulded central truss posts, moulded arch-braced tie-beam of heavy scantling, and moulded crown post. Ashlar pieces. Ogee end-of-hall braces to first floor and to end-of-hall crown posts. Close-studded infilling below inner wall-plate. Cl7 newel staircase in front of stack. Moulded beams to inserted hall floor. Moulded 4-centred arched brick fireplace to first floor left end bay. [J, Newman, West Kent and the Weald, 1980). Listing NGR: TQ8313044229 (6)

Historic England archive material: BF040209 Headcorn Manor, Headcorn Buildings file BF040209 incorporates material from former file BF088221.


<1> Bldgs Kent 1969 308 (Ed N Pevsner) (OS Card Reference). SKE37662.

<2> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.

<3> DOE(HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 21 November 1986 24 (OS Card Reference). SKE40868.

<4> Bldgs of Eng-West Kent and the Weald 1980 321 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38169.

<5> Arch Cant 29 1911 201-205 (H S Cowper) (OS Card Reference). SKE34936.

<6> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Sources/Archives (6)

  • <1> OS Card Reference: Bldgs Kent 1969 308 (Ed N Pevsner).
  • <2> OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 1972.
  • <3> OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 21 November 1986 24.
  • <4> OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng-West Kent and the Weald 1980 321 (J Newman).
  • <5> OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 29 1911 201-205 (H S Cowper).
  • <6>XY Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #27664 Listed building, ]

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

Record last edited

Sep 12 2024 4:25PM