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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 72 NE 123 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | SPONDEN OLD HALL |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999
Summary from record TQ 72 NE 22 :
Late medieval and with 20th century restoration
| Grid Reference: | TQ 79313 29720 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ72NE |
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| Parish: | SANDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 1999 AD)
- HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1280956: SPONDEN OLD HALL |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SANDHURST TQ72NE SPONDEN ROAD 1350-0/5/255 (West side) Sponden Old Hall II* House. Late Medieval open hall-house, ceiled over and with inserted brick chimneystack of late C16 date, restored C20. Timberframed building with plaster infill on brick and sandstone plinth. Left side is mainly box framing with some curved braces to centre. Right side elevation is jettied with moulded cornerposts. Steeply pitched tiled roof with hip and gablet to right hand side, gabled to left, and with late C16 ribbed and clustered brick chimneystack. 2 storeys, 5 windows. 2 C20 hipped dormers. Mainly C20 casements with some diamond mullioned windows. Left side wooden porch. One C16 mullioned window survives to rear behind C17 or C18 catslide roof. Interior has late C16 inserted ceiling with large bressumer. Roll-moulded dais-beam with plank screen. Parlour has open fireplace with bread oven and seats. Ground floor window has 2 original shutters. 1st floor has jowled posts. An unusual feature is a hole, with restored sliding shutters, for throwing out the contents of the chamber pot. Moulded octagonal crown-post with 4 head braces to collar beam and cambered pargetted decoration. Original solid tread oak staircase to attic. Smoke blackened rafters. Through purlin roof with rafters but no ridgepiece. Several old doors.
Listing NGR: TQ7931329720
Description from record TQ 72 NE 22 :
(TQ79322972) Sponden Old Hall [NAT] (1) House. Late medieval open hall-house, ceiled over and with inserted brick chimney stack of late 16th century date, restored 20th century. Timber framed building with plaster infill on brick and sandstone plinth. Listed Grade II*. [Full architectural description] (2) Sponden. Timber framed hall-house of the less usual sort without overhangs at the front but overhanging at the short ends. (3)
<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.
<2> DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (133) (OS Card Reference). SKE40658.
<3> Newman, J 1980 The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (506) (OS Card Reference). SKE47557.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (133). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Newman, J 1980 The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (506). |
