Listed Building record TQ 74 NW 118 - FORMER BARN ABOUT 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF HUNTON COURT

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1799

Location

Grid reference TQ 7257 4965 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NW
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish HUNTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
WEST STREET TQ 74 NW HUNTON (South-east Side) 4/129 Former Barn about 100 metres north-east 20.3.1984 of Hunton Court. (Formerly listed as Barn at Court Lodge) GV II Barn, now part barn part house. Late C17 or early C18, with C15 or C16 core and later C18 additions. Timber-framed, weatherboarded, on part brick, part stone plinth. Plain tile roof. 7 timber-framed bays with front and rear aisles. Midstreys to third and sixth bays from north-west end. Half-hipped roof. 2 hipped porches to north- east side, rising from aisle. 2 porches to south-west side; one C19 the other taller and earlier, with pronounced bracketed eaves jetty half-hipped roof, and 2 tiers of double doors. Interior: first 5 trusses from north-west end late C17 or early C18, with long cut jowls to principal posts, curved passing shores, arch braces, and staggered butt purlin roof with vertical queen-struts to rafters. Sixth truss C15 or early C16, with angled jowls and heavy-scantling arcade braces. Seventh and eighth trusses probably later C18 replacements, with unjowled principal posts, straight arcade braces and clasped purlins with diminishing principal rafters. No mortices for internal partitions.
Listing NGR: TQ7257449657


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

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM