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Monument details

Summary

Homestead moat Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1333 to 1799. Mid C14 timber-framed cottage with a late C18 facade. Now converted into a barn. Traces of a moat are visible to the north of the house.

Monument Types

• MOAT (MOAT, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1333 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 65985135] Little Moat Cottage (T.1.] (1) Little Moat Cottage, now derelict, is a 19c. farmhouse. To the NW of the house is a rectangular-shaped pond while to the NE can be traced a depression 8.0m wide and 0.5m deep. These features, together with the name of the house strongly suggest that a moat formerly existed here. An Antiquity Model survey has been prepared. (2) This depression, which has the appearance of a hollow-way, is shown as a track on the Tithe Map of 1842. (3) TQ 65 SE EAST PECKHAM SEVEN MILE LANE (off) 2/62A Little Moat Cottage II House, now barn. Mid C14, with late C18 facade. Timber framed with brick front, rendered at time of resurvey. Weather-boarded left gable end and plain tile roof; roof hipped both ends; central brick ridge stack. Two window openings and one central door opening to each floor. Narrow rear lean-to. Interior: open hall of 2-bay timber framed construction; rear half of central smoke-blackened base cruck truss survives; considerable remains of C14 timber framing including dragon tie in one corner and rear aisle. (4) Little Moat Cottage. Not listed as a moated site in the County checklist for Kent - December 1979. (5)

Description from record TQ 65 SE 267:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 SE EAST PECKHAM SEVEN MILE LANE (off)
2/62A Little Moat Cottage
- II
House, now barn. Mid C14, with late C18 facade. Timber framed with brick front, rendered at time of resurvey. Weather-boarded left gable end and plain tile roof; roof hipped both ends; central brick ridge stack. Two window open- ings and one central door opening to each floor. Narrow rear lean-to. Interior: open hall of 2-bay timber framed construction; rear half of central smoke-blackened base cruck truss survives; considerable remains of C14 timber framing including dragon tie in one corner and rear aisle. Listing NGR: TQ6627551198 (9)

Archive material (10)

<1> OS 6" 1907-38 (OS Card Reference). SKE48320.

<2> F1 ASP 06-JAN-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE41960.

<3> Tithe Map E.Peckham 1842 (OS Card Reference). SKE50578.

<4> F2 CFW 13-FEB-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE43232.

<5> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling Kent 1985 33 (OS Card Reference). SKE40384.

<6> Moated Sites Res Gp 6 1979 (ed CJ Bond) (OS Card Reference). SKE47248.

<7> Field report for monument TQ 65 SE 7 - January, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3411.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 65 SE 7 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3412.

<9> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<10> Historic England archive material associated with Little Moat Cottage (Archive). SKE53845.

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