Listed Building record TR 14 NE 93 - HIGH CHIMNEY FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999 A four-bay Wealden hall-house, probably built in the mid 15th century. Grade II listed.

Location

Grid reference TR 1526 4752 (point)
Map sheet TR14NE
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish STELLING MINNIS, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 NE STELLING MINNIS SPLIT LANE (south end)
2/184 High Chimney Farmhouse 29.12.66 II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations, largely rebuilt in 1983. Timber framed, with red brick infilling. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Wealden of 4 timber-framed bays; two-bay open hall and storeyed end bays, that to left non- extant by 1983, then replaced. 2 storeys. Jetty of storeyed right end bay cut back flush with hall facade, probably in C17 or C18. Evidence for front jetty to former left end bay. Exposed principal posts and midrails, midrail of left hall bay higher. Right hall bay has further rail (inner wall-plate or window-head?) below wall- plate. Various intermediate rails and studs. Hipped roof. Multiflue brick stack in front slope of roof, in shorter right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 3 two-light casements; one to each bay except right hall bay. Boarded door in C20 brick porch with gabled plain tile roof, to left end bay, and another in brick lean-to to right gable end. Short later C20 brick rear return wing, to right, with roof hipped to rear. Interior: moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam, morticed for spear towards rear end. Similarly moulded and brattished beam to right end of hall, mortices indicating pair of central doors and another towards rear end. Right end bay has plain- chamfered axial beam morticed for partition, and broad close-set unchamfered joists. Shaped jowls to principal posts. Plain crown post with foot braces to left end of hall. Central tie-beam non- extant. Window cill morticed for eight-light diamond mullion window, repositioned in rear wall of left hall bay. Inserted floor to left hall bay has moulded axial beam, moulded cross- beam across stack, and chamfered joists with heart stops. Rebuilt brick fireplace in English bond, with wooden bressumer, and with bread oven extending across former cross-passage. (R.C.H.M. Report No. 39716, May 1983).
Listing NGR: TR1529447515 (1)

Description from record TR 14 NE 20 :
A four-bay Wealden hall-house, probably built in the mid 15th century. Grade II listed.

Historic England archive material: BF039716 HIGH CHIMNEY FARM, STELLING MINNIS


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Jan 25 2024 7:07PM