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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999

Monument Types

• HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1370 AD to 1371 AD) + Sci.Date
• SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TQ 74 SE 165:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST MARDEN ROAD TQ 74 SE (North side)
3/156 Coppwilliam
II
House, formerly cottages, now house. C15, with late C16 or early C17, C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation clad with red brick in Flemish bond. Both floors of right gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 unequal-length timber-framed bays, with storeyed end bay to left. 2 storeys. Former gable end jetty to left. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Filleted brick stack in front slope of roof towards centre (towards right end of narrow left hall bay). Slender rear brick stack to left. Irregular fenestration of two 3-light leaded casements. Segmental heads to ground-floor windows. Ribbed door in brick porch to left end. Blocked doorway, also with segmental head, and now containing 2-light casement, to right end. Red brick lean-to to left. Timber-framed rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Low ceilings. Shaped jowls to principal posts. Cambered, doubly-chamfered arch-braced tie-beam to central hall truss. Axial tie-beam to storeyed left end bay. Plain-chamfered axial beam of heavy scantling to inserted hall floor. Left ground-floor fireplace with plain brick jambs and chamfered wooden bressumer. Chamfered brick fireplace with chamfered bressumer to first floor above. Broad floorboards. Marked on tithe map as Burnt House.
Listing NGR: TQ7781043829

Dendrochronology dating (from an aisle?) gave a felling date of 1370/1. (2)

This feature is recorded in the Building Heritage Assessment by Cgms Consulting as part of the work prior to development of land at Hen & Duckhurst Farm. The report states:
"West of the Hen and Duckhurst Farmhouse and located to the south west of the application site is the Grade II listed building at 'Coppwilliam'. Contrastingly, Coppwillian is visible from Marden Road, although the continuous dense hedgerow along its front boundary ensures that the ground floor is obscured from the main road.

Originally comprising two cottages that likely date to the 15th century, this two storey timber-framed building has successively altered over the centuries. Its front elevation is clad with red brick in Flemish bond with the east gable end is tile hung and the west gable featuring a jetty. Surmounting the building is a steeply-pitched plain tiled hipped roof with gablets and protruding central brick chimneystack. The fenestration is in an irregular pattern of two 3-lighted leaded casements with segmental heads featuring above the ground floor windows. Although not internally inspected by CgMs, the English Heritage List Description provides an account of the heritage assets interiors. As one would expect inside a 15th century building, the timber framing is left exposed with an arch-braced tie- beam to central hall truss to form low ceilings. Therefore its is considered this heritage asset has both aesthetic and historic interest owing to the evidence of its 15th century structure and its later enhancements that contribute to its primary heritage significance.

From the historical maps, Coppwilliam was formerly identified as Burnt House. The undeveloped land immediately to the heritage asset's north has a visual and historical contribution to its heritage significance. Conversely, the modern residential redevelopment that has subsequently been built along Marden Road has ensured that views of the agrarian land to the north east (encompassing the application site) are sufficiently obscured by dense vegetation established along the shared boundary with this development. This means that there is no interdivisibility between the application site and the heritage site to constribute to its significance and setting. " (3)

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

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 22, Pg. 44 (Website). SKE17391.

<3> CgMs Consulting, 2014, Building Heritage Assessment, Land at Hen & Duckhurst Farm, Staplehurst, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31582.

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