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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 54 SW 166 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | THE OLD GUILDHOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. The Old Guildhouse is a two-storey, timber-framed building of four bays; probably constructed c1490-1520 and with substantial C17 alterations. Probably built for a specific original purpose but later converted to two cottages.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 52751 43823 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ54SW |
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| Parish: | PENSHURST, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- GUILDHALL (Medieval to Modern - 1490 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1272985: THE OLD GUILDHOUSE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Leicester Square
The Old Guildhouse TQ 5243 23/821
II* GV
2. (Now 2 cottages). C16 or earlier. Framed half timbered house in good state of preservation. 2 storeys and gable end windows. Ridge tile roof and centre stack. Diamond paned windows. First floor oversailing and supported on carved wooden brackets. Partly boarded and partly plaster infilling. Modern shingle gable ends. Brick and stone plinth. Dragon beams at all 4 corners. Inter west extension in keeping. Wall Cottage, Nos 1 to 3 (consec), the Archway, the Old Guildhouse and the Post Office and Retaining Wall form a group. Listing NGR: TQ5275143824 (1)
Description from record TQ 54 SW 23 :
The Old Guildhouse (now two cottages). Grade II* 16th century or earlier (for full description see list). Sited to TQ 5275 4382 from H.H.R. map). (2)Possibly once a public house (maybe The Porcupine) the hatch door at the front down to cellar would tend to confirm this. Now two cotages it is of C16 or earlier. Framed half timbered house in good state of preservation. 2 storeys and gable end windows. Ridge tile roof and centre stack. Diamond paned windows. First floor oversailing and supported on carved wooden brackets. Partly boarded and partly plaster infilling. Modren shingle gable ends. Brick and stone plinth. Dragon beams at all four corners. Later extension in keeping. (3)
Dendrochronology dating for the jetty gave a felling date of 1490. (4)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks 1975 223 (OS Card Reference). SKE40987.
<3> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.
<4> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 37, Pg. 120 (Website). SKE17391.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #31376 building, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks 1975 223. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge. |
| <4> | Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 37, Pg. 120. |
