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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 54 NW 100 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | THE CASTLE INN |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Timber framed house of six bays. The east bay was probably originally floored. Bays 2 and 3 formed open halls and bays 4 and 5 may also have been open. Bay 6 was also originally open to the roof which is heavily smoke blackened. Main construction periods 1500 to 1632
| Grid Reference: | TQ 50041 45152 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ54NW |
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| Parish: | CHIDDINGSTONE, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BUILDING (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 CHIDDINGSTONE CHIDDINGSTONE High Street (South Side) The Castle Inn TQ 5045 7/201 10.9.54.
II* GV
2. Cl6 framed structure with early Cl7 gable end projection and later elevational treatment. 2 storeys and attic window in gable end. (½ cellar light). Elevation - Tile hung. Wide stone plinth. Diamond paned casement windows. Projecting octagon bay running up 2 storeys with mullioned and transomed windows supporting oversailing gable end with ornamental pendant brackets and bargeboards. Centre hanging pendant and moulded tie beam. Ridge tile roof with stack, Small restored projecting tiled porch with ornamental hanging lamp. Side elevation - Exposed timber framing and brick infilling with tile hung gable end. Interior - Low ceilinged with exposed beams and inglenook etc. In front - Cobbled stone verge to road way. Nos 1 to 4 (consec) No 6, The Castle Inn and the Gate to Coddingstone Castle form a group. Listing NGR: TQ5004245153 (1)
Description from record TQ 54 NW 10 :
(TQ 50044515) Castle Inn (P.H) (NAT) (2) 5280 CHIDDINGSTONE CHIDDINGSTONE High Street (South Side) The Castle Inn TQ 5045 7/201 10.9.54. II* GV 2. C16 framed structure with early C17 gabel end projection and later elevational treatment. 2 storeys and attic window in gabel end. (1/2 cellar light). Elevation - Tile hung. Wide stone plinth. Diamond paned casement windows. Projecting octagon bay running up 2 storeys with mullioned and transomed windows supporting oversailing gable end with ornamental pendant brackets and bargeboards. Centre hanging pendant and moulded tie beam. Ridge tile roof with stack. Small restored projecting tiled porch with ornamental hanging lamp. Side elevation - Exposed timber framing and brick infilling with tile hung gable end. Interior - Low ceilinged with exposed beams and inglenook etc. (3) In front - Cobbled stone verge to road way. The Castle Inn is pargetted very simply with the date 1697 in the pargetting. (4)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> OS 1:2500 1969 (OS Card Reference). SKE48211.
<3> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent Jan 1975 61 (OS Card Reference). SKE41019.
<4> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 214 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37975.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #30474 Building, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1969. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent Jan 1975 61. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 214 (J Newman). |
