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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 NW 35
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Henikers, Sutton Valence

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1367 to 1866


Grid Reference:TQ 8155 4821
Map Sheet:TQ84NW
Parish:SUTTON VALENCE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD) + Sci.Date
  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1367 AD to 1866 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1344302: HENIKERS

Full description

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Description from record TQ 84 NW 156:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SUTTON VALENCE HENIKER LANE TQ 84 NW (north-west side) 5/136 Henikers 26.4.68 II
Farmhouse. Late C14 or early C15, with later C16 and mid C19 alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation clad on both floors with banded plain and fishscale tiles except ground floor of right end bay, which is red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. 2 open hall bays with storeyed bay to right end. Left end bay rebuilt in C19, and oast-house added to left. 2 storeys and garret on rendered plinth. Roof hipped with gablet to left, half-hipped with gablet to right. Multiple brick stack with fillet, in front slope of roof off-centre to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; two three-light and one 2-light C19 casements, and 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with diamond subsidiary mullions under stack. 2 adjacent panelled doors, each with 2 top lights and flat bracketed hood, beneath stack. C20 ribbed door with flat hood to left end. Oasthouse in 2 sections, one weatherboarded, one tile-hung, each hipped to front. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded first-floor end-of- hall beam and evidence for cornice. Moulded central crown-post and pilaster crown-post. Sous-laces. Part of newel staircase behind stack.
Listing NGR: TQ8155048212

Dendrochronology dating gave a date range of 1356-1391. (2)


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

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 19, Pg. 49 (Website). SKE17391.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 19, Pg. 49.