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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 SE 81
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Belks, Otham

Summary

Belks Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1367 to 1999


Grid Reference:TQ 7971 5324
Map Sheet:TQ75SE
Parish:OTHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1367 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1263042: BELKS AND WHITE COTTAGE

Full description

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Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TQ 75 SE 179:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
OTHAM STREET TQ 75 SE OTHAM (West Side) 3/230 Belks GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C14 or early C15 with mid C16 alterations, restored in late C20. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 unequal-length timber-framed bays, and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Gabled end jetties underbuilt. Exposed principal posts and midrails. Peg-holes suggest broadly-spaced close- studding. Tension braces to narrower left hall bay. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Gable end stack to left and brick ridge stack to right end of left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 2- light casement to each end bay, small single light over door, and late C20 rectangular timber-framed first-floor bay window with gable, to right hall bay. Blocked 6-light diamond mullion window to rear wall of right hall bay. Boarded door set within durns to left end of left hall bay. Stone lean-to to right end. Interior: exposed framing. Evidence for service doors to left end of hall, and for stairs to right end bay. Sans-purlin roof. Substantial remains of timber and plaster stack with stone base, backing on to cross-passage. Cambered chamfered bressumer to fireplace, and chamfered stone jambs with broach stops. Moulded axial beam to inserted floor. Formerly known as White Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ7978953699 (1)

End jetty house with formerly open 2-bay hall. Both ends were formerly jettied. (2)

BF040096 Belks, Otham The file contains CMU prints BB87/06320, BB87/06266-7.
RCH01/048/01/512 Labelled sheet of drawings of Belks, Otham, with a ground-floor plan, a sketch elevation of a doorway, arch brace and inserted floor beam profiles, and scarf joint and collar details
RCH01/048/03/072 Sheet of simplified floor plans of six Kent houses This is part of figure 68 in the book, showing plans g to l of Chart House Farmhouse, Chart Sutton; West Court, Shepherdswell; Vane Court, Biddenden; Spoute House, Plaxtol; Wenhams and Thistles, Capel, and Belks, Otham.


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

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.