Listed Building record TQ 76 SW 406 - HALE CLOSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1470 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TQ 73577 60932 (point)
Map sheet TQ76SW
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
AYLESFORD CP ROCHESTER ROAD TQ 76 SW (south side) 4/86 Hale Close
- II
Hall house, now house. Circa 1470-1500, with alterations and additions of C16-C20. Timber-framed, clad in painted brick, painted plaster, painted random rubble stone and some creosoted weather-boarding. Plain tiled roof, hipped to right, half-hipped to left with half-hipped cross-wing to rear and gabled C18 extension to right with projecting C20 half-hipped wing. Main brick ridge stack to right of main block. Secondary stack with wide projecting breast on front of main block in centre. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 2 windows on both floors of main block, and 2 windows on both floors of subsidiary block. C20 boarded and ribbed door under over-hang of former right-hand jetty, which rests on joist-ends and 2 curved brackets Interior: substantial evidence of timber- framing. Some internal alterations c.1950 reputedly by Robert Lutyens. The main block seems originally to have been a Wealden-type hall house but this was truncated later, possibly in the C17, at the north end.
Listing NGR: TQ7319859030


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

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  • --- Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Record last edited

Aug 23 2011 11:13AM