[TR 21666404] Tudor House (NAT) (1) Tudor House (formerly listed as Tudor Cottage, The Forstal). Grade II*. Circa 1440, and later, with exceptional interior features. (2) [For full description see list]. Additional bibliography. (3)

Description from record TR 26 SW 83:
Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TR 26 SW 118:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
In the entry for CHISLET HARLEY LANE
5/289 Tudor House
the address shall be amended to read CHISLET FORSTAL
Tudor House
1. 5273 CHISLET MARLEY LANE
Tudor House (formerly listed as Tudor Cottage, The Forstal) TR 26 SW 5/289 29.9.52.
II*
2. Hall-house of Wealden form circa 1440, with chimney and ceiling over open hall inserted circa 1500 and porches and bay added in 1637. Timber-framed building with plaster infilling, the end window bays of the first floor oversailing on the protruding ends of the floor joists and with brackets and curved braces. The recessed centre has curved braces supporting the overhanging eaves. Steeply- pitched hipped tiled roof with C16 link chimneystack. Three casement windows. The centre portion has a two storeyed bay dated 1637 and added then, of which the first floor has decorative black and white scrollwork and the date and the ground floor has been rebuilt in modern red brick. To the south of this is a red brick porch, also added in 1637, with round-headed archway and shaped Dutch gable. Chimneybreast on each end wall. Behind the porch is the original wooden door surround with blank spandrels. The interior contains two inglenook fireplaces and an original stone fireplace with blank spandrels, upright posts with jowls, embattled beam to former open-hall, one square crownpost of circa 1440, an octagonal moulded crownpost of later date, smoke blackened rafters, original doors and some panelling in an upstairs room. Grade II* as a good example of a Wealden hall-house with exceptional interior features.
Listing NGR: TR2331864878 (1-3)

House of two medieval phases, the earlier of which is a late 14th century lower end cross wing formerly jettied at the front and the rear. The later phase is the addition of a formerly open 2-bay hall and upper end of Wealden form. (4)

Historic England archive material (5)

<1> OS 1:2500 1982 (OS Card Reference). SKE48224.

<2> DOE(HHR) City of Canterbury Kent Mar 1980 87 (OS Card Reference). SKE40873.

<3> BOE NE and E Kent 1983 277 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38233.

<4> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<5> Historic England, Archive material associated with Tudor House, Chislet Forstal, Listed building (Archive). SKE57087.