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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 SE 339 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Old Mote House, Maidstone |
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Summary
Site of Post Medieval (c.1680) house, the predecessor to the present day Mote Park as shown in Kip and Knyff engraving dating to 1718. The house was demolished c.1800 when the current Mote House superceded its usage.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 77598 54525 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75SE |
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| Parish: | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- COUNTRY HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1680 AD to 1800 AD)
Full description
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Site of old Mote house built c1680 by Sir John Marsham First Baronet. The source describes the house as a 'typical conservative style seventeenth-century structure.'
The area has been levelled and there are no earthworks relating to the house although extensive earthworks remain relating to the associated landscape.
Shown in an engraving by Kip and Knyff dated 1718 (1: figure 10) but probably compiled earlier. Also shown in a painting by Hearn (1:Figure 12) and an illustration from c.1799 (1:figure 14) (1)
<1> Maidstone Borough Council, 2008, Mote Park, Maidstone (Unpublished document). SKE16008.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Maidstone Borough Council. 2008. Mote Park, Maidstone. |
Related records
| TQ 75 SE 338 | Parent of: 17th and 18th century landscape of Mote Park (Landscape) |
| TQ 75 SE 340 | Parent of: Site of house and stables contemporary with old Mote House built c.1680 (Monument) |
