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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 1269 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | DEANERY COTTAGE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Jettied, open hall house built in 1496-7, the hall was probably ceiled at the same time as the external brick chimney was constructed. The timber frame is infilled with roughcast and some close studding remains on the ground floor, the sides and back of the building are of red brick. The house has a hipped tile roof with smoke gablets. The jetty at the south end of the building has been partly underbuilt in brick. The house was renovated between 1983 and 1988.
| Grid Reference: | TR 10099 55037 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1496 AD to 2050 AD)
- WEALDEN HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1496 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date
Full description
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Description from record TR 15 NW 82:
TR10095504 Deanery Farmhouse, Chartham. (1)
Dendrochronology dating (of the roof?) gave a date of 1496/7. (2)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 CHARTHAM BOLTS HILL
Deanery Cottage TR 1055 29/228 17.10.74.
II GV
2. Probably built by Prior Goldstone II after 1494 for the 'firmarius'. C15 timber-framed banding with infilling of roughcast, part of the ground floor close studded and part rebuilt in red brick. The end window bays of the first floor oversail on the protruding ends of the floor joists, but the south one has been partly underbuilt. Curved braces support the eaves of the recessed centre. Hipped tiled roof with smoke gablets. External brick chimneystack to north-west. Three windows. The sides and back are of red brick. The interior has a crownpost roof.
Listing NGR: TR1010055034 (3)
Historic England archive material (4)
<1> Arch Cant 98 1983 124 127 (T.Tatton-Brown) (OS Card Reference). SKE36327.
<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 20, Pg. 42 (Website). SKE17391.
<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with The Deanery, Chartham, Listed Building (Archive). SKE54656.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 98 1983 124 127 (T.Tatton-Brown). |
| <2> | Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 20, Pg. 42. |
| <3>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #23485 Listed building, ] |
| <4> | Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with The Deanery, Chartham, Listed Building. |
