Listed Building record TQ 85 SW 145 - BISHOPS

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 8006 5264 (point)
Map sheet TQ85SW
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish OTHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
AVERY LANE TQ 75 SE OTHAM (North Side) 3/215 Bishops 25.7.52 II
House. C15 or early C16, with C19 additions. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, of 2 unequal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and attic. Broadly-spaced studding. Ogee tension braces to right and left end bays. Right and left end bays jettied, jetties returning on plain dragon-posts. Inserted hall floor formerly jettied; jetty removed from left hall bay in early C20 and underbuilt to right. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick ridge stack in front slope of roof, to left hall bay. Rear stack to left and projecting brick stack to right gable end. 2 gabled dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded windows; one canted 6-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on central carved and shaped bracket to left end bay, one to right hall bay, and one 4-light casement to right end bay. One 3-light diamond mullion ground-floor window to left end bay. Boarded door in hollow-chamfered 4-centred arched architrave to left end of hall. Timber-framed rear return wing to left. Late C19 timber-framed rear wing to centre, with 2 gables to its long right side. Interior not inspected, but said to contain brattished crown post.
Listing NGR: TQ8006252650


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

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Record last edited

Sep 3 2009 4:43PM