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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1550 to 1732

Summary from record TR 04 SE 16 :

House 17th c or earlier. Rebuilt early 18th c

Monument Types

• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• SITE (Post Medieval - 1550 AD to 1732 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 04 SE BRABOURNE WEEKES LANE (east side)
4/38 The Hall (formerly listed 13.10. 52 as The Limes)
GV II*
House. C17 or earlier, rebuilt early C18. Timber framed and clad with red and blue brick with red brick dressings. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys, attic and basement on plinth of red brick and ragstone. Paired modillion eaves cornice to hipped roof with 2 gabled dormers (and to right return) and 2 stacks to end left. Regular fenestration of 5 glazing bar sashes on first floor and 4 on ground floor, with 4 to basement in segmentally headed surrounds. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels, the top 2 glazed, with keyed semi-circular fanlight. Doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns, triglyph frieze and open pediment, a late C20 restoration. The cladding of the rear wings, although in similar style and materials, is of a different date. Two rear wings with enclosed court between (with same C17 brickwork, casement window and trap-door reported). Interior: interior of roof area reported arranged in cubicles, either for smuggled goods, or because the house was used as a convalescent. home for London plaque victims (! Igglesden 10, 1913). Heavily timbered and ornamented interior reported. Fine early C18 dog leg and half-landing stair with barley-sugar turned balusters on open string, moulded rail and dado panelling. (See Igglesden, 10, 1913, p.22).
Listing NGR: TR0884042546

Description from record TR 04 SE 16 :
(TR08854253) The Hall [NAT] (1) The Hall. House. 17th cor earlier, rebuilt early 18th c. Timber framed and clad with red and blue brick with red brick dressings. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys, attic and basement on plinth of red brick and ragstone. (Listed grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (2) The Hall (Sometimes called The Limes) 1 m NW. 18th c red brick S front of five bays. Doorcase with an open pediment on Tuscan half-columns. (3)

<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16 February 1989 (19) (OS Card Reference). SKE40471.

<3> Bldgs of Eng: North East and East Kent, 1983, 157 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38104.

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