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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 SE 8
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:The Cloth Hall

Summary

15th or 16th century timber-framed building. The half-timbered Cloth Hall seems to be a small 16th century Wealden-type house, extended at the south end

Summary from record TQ 84 SE 196:

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1599

Grid Reference:TQ 87887 42357
Map Sheet:TQ84SE
Parish:SMARDEN, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • CLOTH HALL (CLOTH HALL, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1400 AD to 1599 AD)
  • CLOTH HALL (CLOTH HALL, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1071366: THE CLOTH HALL

Full description

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(TQ 87884235) The Cloth Hall (NAT) (1) 5272 SMARDEN WATER LANE The Cloth Hall (formerly listed as Turk Farmhouse or The Cloth Hall) TQ 8742 23/17 17.9.52. II* 2. C15 timber-framed and close-studded building with plaster infilling, part of the ground floor rebuilt in red brick, the north-west end of the first floor and part of the centre oversailng on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets. tiled roof. Casement windows with diamond-paned or small square leade panes. Blocked 4-centred wooden doorway. Iron-studded door, with peep-hole to the south-east of this. Two storeys. Five windows. Brick chimney breast with offsets on the south-east wall. Norh-west front has dragon post and blocked double window. The first floor of the north-west front oversails on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets, with a loft door in the centre of it approached by an outside ladder. Above is a second loft door with a projecting hip over it, from which is suspended a hoist with a heavy iron hook. C16 L-addition at north-west corner. Crown post roof. (2) The half-timbered Cloth Hall seems to be a small 16th century Wealden-type house, extended at the south end, but not hipped-roof as usual. Instead a north gable with a hoist and two loft doors. (3)

Description from record TQ 84 SE 196:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 SMARDEN WATER LANE The Cloth Hall (formerly listed as Turk Farmhouse or The Cloth Hall) TQ 8742 23/71
II*
2. C15 timber-framed and close-studded building with plaster infilling, part of the ground floor rebuilt in red brick, the north-west end of the first floor and part of the centre oversailing on the protruding end of the floor joists and brackets. Tiled roof. Casement windows with diamond-paned or small square leaded panes. Blocked 4-centred wooden doorway. Iron-studded door, with peep-hole to the south-east of this. Two storeys. Five windows. Brick chimney breast with offsets on the south-east wall. North-west front has dragon post and blocked double window. The first floor of the north-west front oversails on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets, with a loft door in the centre of it approached by an outside ladder. Above is a second loft door with a projecting hip over it, from which is suspended a hoist with a heavy iron hook. C16 L-addition at north-west corner. Crown post roof.
Listing NGR: TQ8788742357


<1> OS 1:2500 1971 (OS Card Reference). SKE48213.

<2> DOE (HHR) Boro of Ashford Kent 244 (OS Card Reference). SKE39807.

<3> Bldgs of Eng 1980 W Kent & the Weald 532 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37713.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1971.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Boro of Ashford Kent 244.
<3>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng 1980 W Kent & the Weald 532 (J Newman).

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