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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1350 to 1847

Summary from record TQ 93 SE 8 :

15th c or earlier, extended 16th c and altered 1847

Monument Types

• HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1350 AD to 1847 AD)
• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 93 SE ORLESTONE CHURCH LANE (west side) 5/89 Court Lodge 13.10.52 GV II* House. C15 or earlier, extended C16 and altered 1847. Timber framed and part exposed close-studding with plaster infill, part rendered. Plain tiled roofs. L-shaped plan, the entrance front of 2 storeys on ragstone plinth repaired with brick to continuous jetty on brackets returned on massive, moulded dragon beams. Hipped roof with gablets (untiled to right) with gable end of rear wing oversailing to centre left. Massive C16 diapered brick offset stack projecting to centre left, with 2 lozenge set, truncated chimneys. Blocked original mullioned windows to left on lst floor with casements fitted between studs to right, with leaded casements on ground floor. Central C20 half-glazed door with flat hood. Single storey outshot projecting to end right. Left return wing (rendered) of 2 storeys on plinth with plat band and roof with stack to end left. Two metal casements, leaded, on 1st floor and 5 light leaded casement on ground floor with ragstone over inscribed: EK 1847 Door of 6 panels to left with flat hood on brackets. Interior: jettied range with crown post roof. Former exterior close studded wall now to interior of return range, with section of brattished bresummer. C16 wing with fine double wave moulded cross-beamed ceiling, with deeply cut fern-leaf chamfer stops. Extremely large inglenook fireplace with massive moulded chimney bressummer, and fireplace added by Edward Kingsnorth with large iron cauldron hooks and ratchet. Local History asserts the house's origins with Sir William Orlestone, 1320's.
Listing NGR: TR0002134223

Description from record TQ 93 SE 8 :
(TQ 99983468) Court Lodge (NAT) (1) Court Lodge, probably 15th century building, half-timbered with 19th century additions. (2) 23/2A Court Lodge, Orlestone. Grade II* L-shaped timber-framed building, part of which is C.14. The north wing running east is close-studded with plaster infilling. Part of the ground floor of the north front has been rebuilt in brick, now painted, but the first floor of the north and east fronts oversails onthe protruding ends of the floor joists and a corner post with curved braces. Massive brick chimney breast with offsets in the centre of the north front. Hipped tiled roof. Case. ws. with small square leaded panes. 2s. 3w. and 2 blocked ws. The south wing has been refaced with stucco. Stringcourse. Tiled roof of steeper pitch. Red brick gable end to the south. Doorway with flat hood over. 2s. 2w. (3) Court Lodge. T-shaped house. Half-timbered north range, towards the church, with close uprights and an overhang in all directions. Vast 16th century chimney-breast diapered brickwork, but only the stumps of the stacks. (4)

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

<1> OS 1:10000 1980 (OS Card Reference). SKE48166.

<2> F1 ASP 26.02.63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42294.

<3> DOE(HHR) East Ashford RD Kent July 1955 47 (OS Card Reference). SKE41159.

<4> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 2nd Ed 1980 442 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37942.

<5> Field report for monument TQ 93 SE 8 - February, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4722.

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