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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1429 to 1899

Monument Types

• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1429 AD to 1899 AD) + Sci.Date

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
The following building:-
TQ 65 NW PLAXTOL LONG MILL LANE (east side) 4/12 Spoute House 1.8.52
- II
shall be upgraded to Grade II* (star) and the description shall read:-
House, later shop. Circa 1500 open hall house with hall of 2 bays and end bays, the north western bayjettied, with inserted chimneystack and ceiling ofc1600 and C19 wing to rear. Timberframed, the frame exposed with 3 bays having curved tension braces, the north western front jettied on brackets. The 2 central bays have been underbuilt in brick, painted. Otherwise plastered infill. Steeply-pitched tiled roof with gablets and late C16 ribbed brick stack. Dormer with triple casement. C19 casement windows with leaded lights. One storey C19 stone wing to north east. Interior ground floor has roll moulded and brattished dais beam. Two central bays have c1600 spine beam with 2 inch chamfer with lambs tongue stop and similar floor joists. Open fireplace with wooden bressumer and spice hole. Roll-moulded door surround, probably late C16. Floor joists to south east bay are original joists of square section. Three plank door on pintle hinges leads into C19 extension. First floor is open to roof with original rafters and central octagonal crownpost with 4 headbraces and collar beam. The massive tie beam was later cut through to insert a chimney and door. Original floorboards throughout. Blocked mullion windows in centre of north east wall. [See ' BOE West Kent and the Weald' p463.]
TQ 65 NW PLAXTOL LONG MILL LANE 4/12 (east side)
1.8.52 Spoute House
II
Farmhouse. Circa 1500 timber-framed hall-house. Painted brick infill on ground floor in centre. Timber-framed first floor with plaster infilling and some curved bracing. Plain tiled hipped roof with gablets. One hipped dormer to right, off-centre red brick ridge stack to left. Two storeys; extremely irregular 3 window front, with window under eaves at entrance left. Lattice casements. Panelled door to right of centre window. Jetty at west and on exposed joists and brackets. One gabled dormer to north. Extremely irregular north fenestration. One storey north-east extension of coursed, galletted, painted rubble and red brick. Queen post truss roof inside. Interior. Hall. C16 fireplace with chamfered bressumer and one slat-hole. Dais beam survives. One moulded door surround, probably later C16. Moulded crown-post with dowels on partially surviving arches bracings.
Listing NGR: TQ6108453584


Dendrochronology dating of the service end of the end-jetty house. Date range of 1414-1449. (2) Further dating of the open hall gave a date range of 1435-1470. (3)

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

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 19, Pg. 49 (Website). SKE17391.

<3> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 21, Pg. 41 (Website). SKE17391.

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