Listed Building record TQ 74 NW 172 - CLAPPER HOUSE AND PUMP

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1433 to 1932

Location

Grid reference TQ 7300 4889 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NW
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish HUNTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST STREET TQ 74 NW HUNTON (East Side) 4/66 Clapper House and Pump 25.7.52 GV II Farmhouse, now house. Mid C15 with early C17 alterations, early C19 additions and early C20 restoration. Timber-framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden of 2 roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays, that to left end slightly longer. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Close-studded. Right and left end bays jettied, jetties returning, underbuilt, on plain dragon posts. Solid bracket under central tie-beam and renewed solid-spandrel braces to flying wall-plate. Higher midrail to left hall bay and further rail just below inner wall-plate. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to centre of left hall bay, and projecting red and grey brick stack with stone base to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements; one 3-light to each end bay and to right hall bay, and one 2-light under stack. 7-light ovolo-moulded mullion first-floor window to rear. Blocked doorway under stack. Low stone lean-to to left, wrapping round rear of left end bay, with timber-framed rear wall. Central single-storey red brick rear wing, with gable end stack, internal brick copper-stand, and boarded door to right side. Pump beside door with plaque RB 1804 Interior: exposed framing. Moulded octagonal crown post, on cambered tie-beam morticed for solid-spandrel braces and fillet. Chamfer-stopped stone fireplace, including one to first floor .
Listing NGR: TQ7300148893


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM