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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 SE 354
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:LITTLE BURSTED FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1540.


Grid Reference:TR 1649 5001
Map Sheet:TR15SE
Parish:UPPER HARDRES, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1370042: LITTLE BURSTED FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 UPPER HARDRES Little Bursted Farmhouse TR 15 SE 13/622 30.1.67
II
2. Probable late Mediaeval timber-framed building with plaster and some painted brick infilling, the first floor of the north front oversailing on the protruding ends of the floor joists and weatherboarded. Two storeys. Steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof with C17 brick chimneystack. Four casement windows. Gabled weatherporch.
Listing NGR: TR1648749961
The farmhouse is associated with Little Bursted Farm (TR 15 SE 405) (2).

Four-bay timber framed house with 2-bay purpose built half-floored hall. The open bay lay to the north beyond which was an overshot passage. The lower end was jettied at the end and the upper end formerly so (3)

Historic England archive material(4)


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2017, Little Bursted Farm, Lynsore Bottom, Upper Hardres, Canterbury, CT4 6EQ. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE52723.

<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with Little Bursted Farmhouse, Lynsore Bottom, Listed Building (Archive). SKE56473.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd. 2017. Little Bursted Farm, Lynsore Bottom, Upper Hardres, Canterbury, CT4 6EQ. Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Report.
<3>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
<4>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Little Bursted Farmhouse, Lynsore Bottom, Listed Building.