Listed Building record TQ 75 NE 433 - 70 WARE STREET

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1984 Wealden house, probably dating from the third quarter of the C15. Later alterations A much restored Wealden house with a formerly open 1-bay hall and unusually a 2-bay lower end which is jettied at the end as well as the front.

Location

Grid reference TQ 79462 56156 (point)
Map sheet TQ75NE
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish BEARSTED, MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish THURNHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 75 NE THURNHAM WARE STREET (north side)
5/221 No. 70
II
Hall house, now house. Late C15 and early C16. Timber-framed with plaster infilling. Plain tiled roof. Wealden house with hall of one long, or possibly 2,bays, with storeyed bay at either end, that to left longer. 2 storeys with right and left bays jettied and left gable end jettied with moulded dragon- post. Broadly spaced studding with tension braces. Arch braces to flying wall plate and coving between inner and flying wall- plate. Roof hipped with gablet to right and left. Brick stack in front slope of roof, off-centre to left. Irregular fenestration of one small original window opening either side of central post to left bay and one C19 3-light casement to unrestored right hand bay. Restored tall open-hall window to right of hall. C20 Tudor-arched door-head at right end of left end bay with original narrow Tudor-arched door-head immediately to left. C20 brick lean-to to right. Undergoing works at time of re-survey.
Listing NGR: TQ8065057867 (1)

Description from record TQ 75 NE 182:
Wealden house, probably dating from the third quarter of the C15. Later alterations

A much restored Wealden house with a formerly open 1-bay hall and unusually a 2-bay lower end which is jettied at the end as well as the front. (2)

Historic England archive material:RCH01/048/01/689 Labelled sheet of drawings of Stocks House, Thurnham, with a section, a ground-floor plan, a crown-post elevation and a dais profile. BF008700 STOCKS HOUSE, BEARSTED


<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.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  • <2> Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.

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Related Events/Activities (1)

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

Record last edited

Nov 3 2023 1:34PM