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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 83 SW 77 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | OLD STANDEN |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1999
Summary from record TQ 83 SW 21 :
Late 15th century with later alterations
| Grid Reference: | TQ 81005 30517 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ83SW |
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| Parish: | BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 1999 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1336746: OLD STANDEN |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BENENDEN TQ83SW STANDEN STREET 1350-0/3/102 (East side) 09/06/52 Old Standen II* House. Late C15 open hall-house with crosswing to right hand side, late C16 chimney and C18 extension and refronting to left hand side with C20 gable and fenestration. Timber-framed building with only the brackets exposed to the front elevation, but exposed close-studding to rear and jettied overhang to cross wing. Ground floor to front red brick in Flemish bond, 1st floor plastered but cross wing to right faced in brick to ground floor and weatherboarded above and left side painted brick to ground floor and tile hung above. Steeply pitched old tiled roof with brick chimneystack. 2 storeys and attics 4 windows. C20 casements. C20 dormer with gabled projection. C20 gabled porch. Interior has roll moulded and crenellated dais beam and open fireplaces with wooden bressumer. 2 3-centred arched doorways to cross wing with floriate carved spandrels, 1st floor has jowled posts and elaborate crown posts with most unusual rose carving to 4 head braces and octagonal crownpost to cross wing. Rear wing has early C17 bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ8100530517
Description from record TQ 83 SW 21 :
(TQ81013052) Old Standen. (1) House. Late 15th century open hall-house with cross wing to right hand side, late 16th century chimney and 18th century extension and refronting to left hand side with 20th century gable and fenestration. Listed Grade II*. [Full architectural description] (2) Standen, a compact front, two storeyed and jettied across the whole of it. (3)
<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.
<2> DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (54) (OS Card Reference). SKE40663.
<3> Newman, J 1980. The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (170) (OS Card Reference). SKE47559.
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 (54). |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Newman, J 1980. The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (170). |
