Listed Building record TQ 75 NE 433 - 70 WARE STREET
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 79462 56156 (point) |
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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.
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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