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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1799. Etchden Farmhouse L-shaped. A timber-framed building, probably a late mediaeval hall- house with C18 cross wing. Some timbering exposed and red brick infilling but mostly refaced with red brick on the ground floor and hung with curved tiles above. Hipped tiled roof. Two storeys. Three casement windows. Doorcase with door of 6 fielded panels

Monument Types

• MOAT (Nearly gone, Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD? to 2050 AD)
• TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (FARMHOUSE with 18th century cross-wing, Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD? to 2050 AD)
• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 BETHERSDEN ETCHDEN ROAD Etchden Farmhouse TQ 94 SW 14/49 II 2. L-shaped. A timber-framed building, probably a late mediaeval hall-house with C18 cross wing. Some timbering exposed and red brick infilling but mostly refaced with red brick on the ground floor and hung with curved tiles above. Hipped tiled roof. Two storeys. Three casement windows. Doorcase with door of 6 fielded panels.
Listing NGR: TQ9502341803 (2)

Description from record TQ 94 SW 3 :
Hecchisdenne or Etchden is mentioned in 1389 as Heithesdenne in Betevisdene. The house has no remains of antiquity but the moat, partly filled with water, is still to be seen. A wooden cattle shed has always been called "the chapel," and a few years ago a paved path leading to it from the house was discovered below the soil. There is a mention in a will of a bequest to the "Light of the Blessed Mary of Achenden" in 1471(3).

Etchden farmhouse is a Kentish yeoman's house of the 14/15c. but heavily restored and much altered with brickwork to be no longer of architectural interest. The enclosing moat, which for its S side utilised a stream, is reduced to a pond on the W side and a waterfilled ditch on the N. side. But its course can be traced for most of its original length. (25" AM has been revised). The alleged site of the chapel is occupied by a cattle shed as described above and no trace of it remains (4).

Checked and correct: survey of 19.12.61(5)

Etchden Farm is not listed in the County checklist of moated sites in Kent - December 1979. (6)

5272 BETHERSDEN ETCHDEN ROAD Etchden Farmhouse TQ 94 SW 14/49 II 2. L-shaped. A timber-framed building, probably a late mediaeval hall- house with C18 cross wing. Some timbering exposed and red brick infilling but mostly refaced with red brick on the ground floor and hung with curved tiles above. Hipped tiled roof. Two storeys. Three casement windows. Doorcase with door of 6 fielded panels. 1. 5272 BETHERSDEN ETCHDEN ROAD Weatherboarded barn to south-west of Etchden Farmhouse TQ 94 SW 14/49A II 2. C18 or earlier. Large weatherboarde barn on stone base, with hipped tiled roof.(8)

See also (1, 7, 9-10)

<1> OS 6" 1960 (OS Card Reference). SKE48367.

<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<3> Pearman, A. J. Rev., 1886, Bethersden, Its Church & Monumental Inscriptions, Arch Cant 16 1886 66 (AJ Pearman) (Article in serial). SKE8208.

<4> F1 ASP 19-DEC-61 (OS Card Reference). SKE42179.

<5> F2 CFW 01-JAN-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE43192.

<6> Moated Sites Res Gp 6 1979 (OS Card Reference). SKE47246.

<7> DOE (HHR) Boro of Ashford Kent Oct 1980 9 (OS Card Reference). SKE39835.

<9> Field report for monument TQ 94 SW 3 - December, 1961 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4790.

<10> Field report for monument TQ 94 SW 3 - January, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4791.

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