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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1899

Monument Types

• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1400 AD to 1899 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
WORMSHILL BEDMONTON TQ 85 NE 1/261 Bedmonton Manor Farmhouse GV II Farmhouse. C15 with C16 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed, front elevation clad in red brick in Flemish bond except left end bay, possibly entirely added, in chequered red and grey brick 2 storeys on brick plinth. Roof hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack in front slope of roof off-centre to right. Smaller brick stack to left gable and to right lean-to. Irregular fenestration of three 3-light C19 leaded casements, and one gabled through dormer to right of stack. Canted bay window beneath dormer on ground floor. Panelled door under flat corniced hood beneath stack. Lean-to to right and smaller one to left. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8732157836 (1)

The site originated as a MD farmstead, but present farmhouse C15 with C16 and C19 alterations. (listed grade 2) 2 storeys on brick plinth and timber framed, most of front elevation clad in red brick in Flemish bond. C19 associated buildings. (2)

Interanlly the house was orginially open to the roof with three cross walls of full height. The roof space and these walls are blackened with soot and smoke in the roof space. In the centre of the house is a 'crown post' which is now only shows in the roof space but what can be seen is octangonal in shape with moulded springing at the foot of the struts at the top. There is also a beam decorated with dentils within the house. The remaining frames of wood mullioned windows can be seen withib the later leaded windows. (3)

In 1993 Nicolas Bannister did a historic landscape survey on the estate at Wormshill. It is possible the Bedmonton Manor originated as a place of worship or a settlement of a holy person. Althought not mentioned in the Doomsday survey, it is mentioned in the Black Book of St Augustine's Priory where it formed part of the larger Manor of Newington belonging to St Augustine's. William de Dene owned both Bedmonton and the Manor at Wormhill at the same time, he inherited in 1299. (3)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<3> Nicola Bannister, 1993, Historic Landscape Survey of Wormshill Estate, Nr Sittingbourne, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE17239.

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