Listed Building record TQ 86 SE 196 - POSIERS

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 86 SE BURDEN BURDEN LANE (east side)
5/42 Posiers 27.8.52 II
Wealden hall house. C15, clad C19. Timber framed and rendered with plain tiled roof. Four framed bays. Two storeys, right end bay jettied, left end bay now underbuilt. Flying wall plate braced over central recessed hall bays, with coved eaves. Hipped roof with gablets, projecting stacks at end left and end right, and stack centre left. Irregular fenestration of 3 tripartite sash windows and 1 glazing bar sash centre left, and 3 tripartite sashes on ground floor, with plank and stud door and sidelights centre left in red brick penticed porch. Panelled interior with stone fireplace.
Listing NGR: TQ8876162703 (1)

Wealden house with formerly open 2-bay hall and with both ends jettied to the end as well as the front. (2)

Historic england archive material: BF040268 POSIERS, BORDEN File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.RCH01/048/01/075 Labelled reconstructed sketch plan of Posiers, Borden

A walkover survey was carried out at the site as part of a heritage assessment in November 2019 which described buildings associated with Posiers. These included the two kiln oast, a part weatherboarded barn and stables with a a walled kitchen garden to the rear.
The assessment also described alterations to the historic features of the farmhouse during the post-medieval period including the replacement of the open hearth area with a chimney during the 16th century, the replacement of wattle and daub with brick between the timbers of the frame, and the replacement of the thatched roof with Kentish peg tiles. (3)

<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.

<3> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 2019, Heritage Statement In Advance Of The Proposed Development At Posiers, Borden Road, Sittingbourne, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE56625.