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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 74 NE 42 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1379 to 1466
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7902 4803 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ74NE |
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| Parish: | CHART SUTTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval - 1350 AD to 1466 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1379 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date
Full description
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Description from record TQ 74 NE 111:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CHART SUTTON GREEN LANE TQ 74 NE [south side} 4/40 Chart Hall Farmhouse 26.4.68 (formerly listed as Chart Bottom Farmhouse) GV II
Farmhouse. Early-to-mid C15 or earlier. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick, first floor exposed framing. Plain tile roof. Wealden; 2-bay open hall with right bay sub-divided by full- height post, and broad storeyed right end bay. 2 storeys and attics. Broadly-spaced studding. Both principal posts of central truss have long cut jowls facing right hall bay. Tension braces to right end bay. Right end bay jettied, jetty formerly returning. Solid braces to flying wall-plate. Bracket beneath central tie-beam and beneath an apparent tie-beam to centre of each hall bay. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of right end bay. Gabled dormer. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows; two 2-light casements to left hall bay, one 3-light casement and one 4-light diamond wood mullion windows to right hall bay, and one 5-light casement to right end bay. Head of tall, narrow durns to right end of right hall bay. Inserted doorway with moulded jambs and 4-centred arched head beneath stack. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7902448038
Dendrochronology dating of the hall and service-end of the wealden house gave a date of 1379/80. (2)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 22, Pg. 43 (Website). SKE17391.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 22, Pg. 43. |
