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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1632 15th cent., 17th cent. Alterations

Monument Types

• WEALDEN HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1473 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date

Full description

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Description from record TQ 85 SW 32 :
[TQ 8317 5026] Blue House (NAT) (1) The Blue House, Chartway Street, Grade II*. House now cottages. 15 c. with early 17 c. alterations. Timber framed, with rendered infilling and plain tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of 2 unequal-length bays, and storeyed right end bay. (2) The Blue House, south side of Chartway Street. Timber framed, 15th century with early 17th century alterations. (3)

Dendrochronology dating of the open hall gave a date range of 1463-1493. (4)

Description from record TQ 85 SW 172:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST SUTTON CHARTWAY STREET TQ 85 SW [south side) 2/67 The Blue House 26.4.68 II*
House, now cottages. C15, with early C17 alterations. Timber framed, with rendered infilling and plain tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of 2 unequal-length bays, and storeyed right end bay. Left end rebuilt as separately framed 2-bay cross-wing. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Right and left end bays jettied, jetties returning on moulded dragon posts. Broadly-spaced studding to hall and to ground floor of end bays. First floor of each end bay rendered. Small arch brace to right end of flying wall plate. Solid bracket under central tie-beam and under left end post of hall. Roof hipped to left with gablet, and hipped towards right end down to lower ridge over right end bay. Small projecting stacks to right and left. Multiple brick ridge stack at junction of hall and left wing. Irregular fenestration of 5 leaded casements; one 3-light to left bay, one 2-light to left hall bay, two 2-light to broader right hall bay, and one 3-light to right end bay. Ribbed door to right end of hall. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded, brattished end of hall beam. Moulded crown post to hall. Side purlin roof to wing. Inserted hall floor dated 1610. Plank-and-muntin partition, probably early C17.
Listing NGR: TQ8317850251 (5)

Historic England archive material (6)

<1> OS 1:10000 1971 (OS Card Reference). SKE48156.

<2> DOE (HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 18 Dec 1985 44 (OS Card Reference). SKE39916.

<3> Bldgs of Eng-West Kent & the Weald 1980 272 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38142.

<4> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 19, Pg. 48 (Website). SKE17391.

<5> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<6> Historic England, Archive material associated with The Blue House, East Sutton, Listed Building (Archive). SKE54233.

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