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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 SE 46 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | Rock Cottage, Atkins Hill, late 16th century, Boughton Monchelsea |
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Summary
Rock Cottage, Atkins Hill, late 16th century Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1599
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7686 5188 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75SE |
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| Parish: | BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1567 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1344353: ROCK COTTAGE |
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Full description
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TQ 76865189. Rock Cottage, Atkins Hill, late 16th Century. (1) TQ 75 SE Boughton Monchelsea Atkins Hill 1/1 (North side) 23.5.67 Rock Cottage GV (Formerly listed as Rock Cottages, Boughton Quarries) II* House, formerly cottages, now house. Late C16. Timber-framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Possibly lobby entry plan. 4 timber-framed bays (including 2-bay principal room to left of stack), and stack bay. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Close-studded. Continuousjetty returning to right on moulded dragon post. Roof hipped to left with gablet, gabled to right. Multiple brick ridge stack in narrow second bay from right. Slender projecting brown brick stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements; three 3-light and one 2-light under stack. Evidence for oriel window to right hall bay. Rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window with lean-to roof and moulded coved base to first floor of right gable end. Similar 10-light oriel window on stone base under jetty below. C16 boarded door in moulded rectangular architave to left end of left bay of principal room. Blocked door under stack. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded cross and axial beams to principal room on each floor. Newel staircase between stack and former front door. Shutter grooves. Dropped doorheads. 4 fireplaces to principal stack; those to principal room on each floor with moulded stone jambs and cambered bressumers, with moulded mantel-shelf to first floor, those to right end room on each floor entirely stone. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters. Jettying contrived without dragon-beam. (2)
Description from record TQ 75 SE 298:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA ATKINS HILL TQ 75 SE (North side)
1/1 Rock Cottage (Formerly listed 23.5.67 as Rock Cottages, Boughton Quarries)
GV II*
House, formerly cottages, now house. Late C16. Timber-framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Possibly lobby entry plan. 4 timber-framed bays (including 2-bay principal room to left of stack), and stack bay. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Close-studded. Continuous jetty returning to right on moulded dragon post. Roof hipped to left with gablet, gabled to right. Multiple brick ridge stack in narrow second bay from right. Slender projecting brown brick stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded casements; three 3-light and one 2-light under stack. Evidence for oriel window to right hall bay. Rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window with lean-to roof and moulded coved base to first floor of right gable end. Similar 10-light oriel window on stone base under jetty below. C16 boarded door in moulded rectangular architrave to left end of left bay of principal room. Blocked door under stack. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded cross and axial beams to principal room on each floor. Newel staircase between stack and former front door. Shutter grooves. Dropped doorheads. 4 fireplaces to principal stack; those to principal room on each floor with moulded stone jambs and cambered bressumers, with moulded mantel-shelf to first floor, those to right end room on each floor entirely stone. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters. Jettying contrived without dragon-beam. Listing NGR: TQ7687051890 (4)
<1> OS 1:2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48196.
<2> DOE(HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 25 March 1987 (OS Card Reference). SKE40872.
<3> Bldgs of Eng - West Kent and the Weald 1980 176 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37682.
<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 25 March 1987. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng - West Kent and the Weald 1980 176 (J Newman). |
| <4>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #20693 Listed building, ] |
