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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1930. 15th/16thc Malt house

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 2050 AD)

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Description from record TQ 66 NE 19 :
[Marginal] When Sir Herbert Baker presented Owletts [TQ 66 NE 18] to the National Trust he felt that the nation should also possess as example of the medieval type; the high-halled, half-timbered house of the 15thc. yeoman. In his forthcoming memoirs 'Architecture and Personalities' he writes: "I bought back some dilapidated cottages-.. they are shown on the survey of Owletts land in 1758 and discovered there the massive oak timbers of walls, floors and roof. I removed the floors and chimney stack, inserted the high hall customary in Elizabethan days, and built the beam-ceiling and stone fireplaces in the two rooms added outside. I found remains of high old windows with glassless oak mullions grooved for shutters, and added glazed casements inside." The hall [the yeoman's house in Sole Street,] has now much of its original appearance. [See AO.59/160/1 & 155/8] (1) TQ 65676765 - Owned by the National Trust & known as 'Yeomans House'. (2) No change. (3) Yeomans House (formerly listed as Tudor Yeoman's House). Grade II. (4) Additional bibliography. (5) Additional bibliography - not consulted. (6)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 66 NE COBHAM SOLE STREET 5/11 (west side) 21.11.66 Yeomans House (formerly listed as Tudor Yeoman's House)
II
Late C15 wealden house restored by Sir Herbert Baker and given to The National Trust in 1931. Ground floor now brick and timber plastered over. First floor of low south end is jettied and weatherboarded. Higher north end rebuilt in 1930 to house C16 floor taken out of hall which is now open to the ridge. Roof tiled with moulded tie-beam, curved braces and octagonal crown post. Hall windows are set with wooden diagonal mullions. C16 oriel window is re-set in high end. Internally oak doors re-used in original 4-centred arched service doorways. Chimney stack C20 rebuild.
Listing NGR: TQ6568167658 (10)

<1> Country Life, Vol.95, Jan-Apr. 1944, pp.200-203, Illust. (Chris. Hussey) (OS Card Reference). SKE39483.

<2> Mrs. Sieveking (Occupier) (OS Card Reference). SKE47451.

<3> F1 CFW 07-JUL-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42469.

<4> F2 FGA 20-OCT-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE43330.

<5> DOE (HHR) Bor of Gravesham 1983 6-7 (OS Card Reference). SKE39804.

<6> Nat Trust Handbook 1988 137 (OS Card Reference). SKE47514.

<7> Nat Trust Properties 1976 26 (OS Card Reference). SKE47515.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 66 NE 19 - July, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3510.

<9> Field report for monument TQ 66 NE 19 - October, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3511.

<10> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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