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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 65 NE 66 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | The Barracks, Well Street, East Malling |
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Summary
House with a formerly open 2-bay hall , a formerly jettied lower end and an upper end cross wing.
Grid Reference: | TQ 69395 56552 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ65NE |
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Parish: | EAST MALLING AND LARKFIELD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CROSS WING HOUSE (Medieval - 1430 AD to 1460 AD)
- JETTIED HOUSE (Medieval - 1430 AD to 1460 AD)
- OPEN HALL HOUSE (Medieval - 1430 AD to 1460 AD)
- HOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1533 AD to 1566 AD)
- HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1667 AD to 1699 AD)
Full description
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Listed building : no additional information available
Description from record TQ 65 NE 343:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST MALLING AND LARKFIELD CP WELL STREET TQ 6956 (west side) 14/195 The Barracks 1.8.52
- II*
Farmhouse, now house. Circa 1380-1400 with solar wing of circa 1450. Exposed timber-framing with plaster infilling and many carved braces on random rubble plinth. Plain tiled roof, hipped to left, with off-ridge stack to rear at right and large end stack with projecting brick and rubble breast to left. Return gabled wing to right with jetty on joists and end brackets over ground floor. C16 decorated barge boards, cusped and with pair of owls moulded under apex. 2 storeys; irregular fenestration of 4 windows on both floors, mullioned windows, some original mullions with metal-framed windows in front of the mullions. Boarded door slightly off-centre to left with arched entrance and moulded spandrels. Extensions to rear, including that behind solar partly added c.1970. Interior: Ground floor: 3 2-centred service arches. Central hall wall posts moulded. Chamfered fireplace bressumer, flanked by pair of moulded C16 doorcases from demolished house in Leeds, Kent, leading into parlour. Stone 4-centred arched fireplace surround in parlour. Collar-purlin roof with moulded brown-post on moulded arch brace over former hall. Solar with moulded crown-post on moulded arch brace and 4-centred arched moulded stone fireplace surround.
Listing NGR: TQ6939556552
<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.
<3> Historic England, Historic documents (Archive). SKE56395.
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. |
<3> | Archive: Historic England. Historic documents. |