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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 83 SE 8 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | Old Knockwood House |
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Summary
C16th house formerly Knock Farm Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599
| Grid Reference: | TQ 89725 34276 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ83SE |
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| Parish: | TENTERDEN, ASHFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1071130: OLD KNOCKWOOD |
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Full description
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(TQ 89723428) Old Knockwood (NAT) (1) 1715 WOODCHURCH ROAD (North West Side) Old Knockwood (formerly listed as Knockwood) TQ 83 SE 3/135 8.5.50. II* 2. Originally Knock Farm. A C16 timber-framed house with plaster infilling. 2 storeys. Steeply pitched tiled roof with 2 large brick stacks. The 1st floor overhangs on the protruding ends of the floor joists. Curved brackets, diagonal braces on the 1st floor and a bressumer, originally horizontal but now sloping up in the middle of the front and then down again. 5 casement windows with original diamond panes. 2 blocked original window openings. Doorcase with obtusely pointed head. (2) Knock Farm, Tenterden, half-timbered, restored but still badly sagging. Long front with widely spaced studs, and a continuous overhang. (3)
Description from record TQ 83 SE 209:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 1715 WOODCHURCH ROAD (North West Side)
Old Knockwood (formerly listed as Knockwood) TQ 83 SE 3/135 8.5.50.
II
2. Originally Knock Farm. A C16 timber-framed house with plaster infilling. 2 storeys. Steeply pitched tiled roof with 2 large brick stacks. The 1st floor overhangs on the protruding ends of the floor joists. Curved brackets, diagonal braces on the 1st floor and a bressumer, originally horizontal but now sloping up in te middle of the front and then down again. 5 casement windows with original diamond panes. 2 blocked original window openings. Doorcase with obtusely pointed head.
Listing NGR: TQ8972634276 (4)
HE archive material: BF040584 OLD KNOCKWOOD, TENTERDEN File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
<1> OS 1:10000 1980 (OS Card Reference). SKE48166.
<2> DOE (HHR) Boro of Tenterden, Kent June 1972 66 (OS Card Reference). SKE39897.
<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 2nd Ed 1980 567 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37952.
<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 1980. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Boro of Tenterden, Kent June 1972 66. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 2nd Ed 1980 567 (J Newman). |
| <4>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #26958 Listed building, ] |
