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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1999 Manor House 16thc, 12thc foundations

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
• BREWHOUSE (BREWHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 56 SE STANSTED C.P. SOUTH ASH ROAD 1/1 (west side) 1.8.52 South Ash Manor
II*
Manor House. C16 with porch of c.1600 and C19 external and C20 internal alterations. North front. Red brick plinth, timber-framed above, of vertical close-studding with plaster infilling. Jettied projections at each end of front. Plain tiled hipped roof with large gablets and slight catslide extensions to both sides 2 gabled dormers. 1 stack to left on slope of roof, 1 right ridge stack with arched panelling. 2 storeys and attics; 4 windows, wide glazing bar sashes, except tripartite sash on ground-floor to right of porch, and French casements to left. Small casements under left and right of ground and 1st floor left-hand windows. Central 2-storey gabled porch with decorative exposed framing. Jettied under 1st floor on joists and dragon-beams. Jettied under gable on moulded bressumer. Studded door in moulded surround, flanked by pair of wooden caryatid figures, probably C16, introduced later. 1-storey additions to right and left of front. South front. Red brick with plain tiled roof. Central off-ridge stack and gabled dormer to left. Projecting wings to left and right. 2 storeys and attic; 1- 3- 1 window first floor, 2- 2- 1 ground floor, the central pair of ground-floor openings being doorways. Recess on ground-floor masked by C20 timber-framed conservatory. Interior. Dining room (originally 'Hall Parlour'). Later C16 painted decoration. Fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Hall. Late C17 fielded panelling, originally in Dining Room. Early C20 plastered ceiling with Arts and Crafts vine decoration. Drawing room. Early C20 Adamesque fireplace. The house was built by the Hodsoll family. (after whom the parish of Hodsall Street is named), who retained it until the C19. This building straddles the boundary of Stansted C.P. (Tonbridge and Malling District) and Ash-cum-Ridley C.P. (Sevenoaks District) and is therefore, listed under both parishes. Listing NGR: TQ5960063165 (1)

Description from record TQ 56 SE 9 :
[TQ 5960 6316] South Ash Manor [NAT] (2) This is a C16th timber framed house with plaster infilling built on C12th stone foundations. (3) South Ash Manor, a private residence, in excellent condition. The building is as described except that no evidence of stone foundations was found, beyond a single large stone, in the porch, which supports part of the timber-framing. Cellars beneath the house are modern. (4) South Ash Manor, South Ash Road, Ash-cum-Ridley. Grade II*. On the common boundary of the parishes of Ash-cum-Ridley (Sevenoaks District)and Stansted (Tonbridge and Malling District), and previously listed in Stansted parish on 1 August 1952. Tall C16 timber-framed house withvertical half-timbering and plaster infilling, built on stone foundations of the C12. Hipped tiled roof. Two storeys and attics. Twogabled dormers. Two small casement windows with small squared leaded panes and 5 large sash windows with glazing bars intact. (4) The two storeyed porch is clearly later, perhaps as late as c1600. Thewooden caryatid figures beside the door do not belong. Elizabethan painted decoration in the dining room. (5-6) The Hodsole family possessed this property from 1346 to 1725, and appear to have built the present residence and made subsequent alterations. (7) Additional Bibliography (8) Photographic record 1998. (9)

Results of a building recording (10-11)

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

<2> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<3> MHLG (2033/11/A Nov 1960) 4 (OS Card Reference). SKE46969.

<4> F1 ASP 28-AUG-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42331.

<5> DOE (HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks Kent Oct 1982 9 (OS Card Reference). SKE40326.

<6> The Buildings of England W Kent and the Weald 1980 132-133 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE50215.

<7> Dartford Dist Antiq Soc 1 1931 15 (OS Card Reference). SKE39643.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 56 SE 9 - August, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE2951.

<9> Untitled Source, Photographic record and constructional survey. Fawkham & Ash Arch. Group 1998. (Unpublished document). SKE6451.

<10> Fawkham and Ash Archaeological Group, 1998, Constructional Survey of South Ash Manor House (Unpublished document). SKE53747.

<11> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2000, Constructional Survey of South Ash Manor House (Unpublished document). SKE53748.

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