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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 75 SE 80 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | Otham Manor, formerly known as 'Wardes' |
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Summary
Wardes : listed building Formerly called Wardes, gde I, C14 origins Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1367 to 1922
Grid Reference: | TQ 7974 5350 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ75SE |
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Parish: | OTHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1367 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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Listed building : no additional information available
Description from record TQ 75 SE 40 :
TQ 7974 5349. Otham Manor [NAT] (1) Otham Manor (formerly listed as Wardes). Late 14th century with 16th century alterations and additions. Restored circa 1912. Timber framed with plaster infilling. (Country Life 30.8.1919) (For full description, see list) (2) Additional bibliography. (3 - 5)
Description from record TQ 75 SE 165:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
OTHAM STREET TQ 75 SE OTHAM (West Side) 3/233 Otham Manor (formerly listed as 25.7.52 Wardes) GV I
House, formerly cottages, now house. Late C14 with C16 alterations and additions. Restored circa 1912 by Sir Louis Mallet. Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Late C14 Wealden, built at right- angles to road, with 2 almost equal-length open hall bays and storeyed end bay to south. Storeyed north (right) end bay either completely re-built, or with first floor and roof rebuilt slightly later. Late C16 timber-framed rear wing running west from west end of north bay, which it slightly overlaps. Addition of c.1912 to north side of wing. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Broadly-spaced close-studding to left (south) end bay, with 2 tension braces to front, gable end and rear. More broadly-spaced studding to hall. Ground floor, and central panel of first floor of right end bay close-studded, with pair of small ogee braces under eaves to each end of bay. Right and left end bays jettied to front, jetties returning on moulded dragon posts. Left end bay further jettied, partly underbuilt, to rear. Arch-braced flying wall-plate to front and rear of hall, front left-hand brace springing from small moulded wooden corbel. Bracket under central tie-beam. Roof of main range hipped to left, with gablet. Roof of right end bay incorporated with C16 wing, hipped to front with gablet, and with higher eaves than main range. Wing gabled to rear. Projecting stone stack with brick flue to left gable end. Flush louvre in roof to left end of hall. Multiple brick ridge stack towards rear of C16 wing. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one 4-light leaded casement to left end bay, one 3-light leaded casement to right end bay, and diamond mullion window to left hall bay, of 8 lights above and 8 below midrail. Similar window to rear of hall. Boarded door with durns to right end of hall, and similar doorway to rear. Interior not inspected. (Country Life 30.8.1919). This is an important early example of a building type and is graded accordingly. Listing NGR: TQ7978953699 (6)
Historic England archive material BB72/04323 View of Sir Louis Mallet's Library in Wardes, Otham
BF040233 WARDES, OTHAM File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. OP29107 View of the Red Parlour in Wardes, Otham OP29108 View of the Drawing Room in Wardes, Otham OP29109 View of Sir Louis Mallet's Library in Wardes, Otham
<1> OS 1:2500 1975 (OS Card Reference). SKE48217.
<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Maidstone Kent 26 Feb 1987 126 (OS Card Reference). SKE40293.
<3> English Homes 1066-1558 2 145 (H A Tipping) (OS Card Reference). SKE41647.
<4> English Homes 1066-1558 2 145 (H A Tipping) (OS Card Reference). SKE41647.
<5> Country Life 46 270-279 (OS Card Reference). SKE39434.
<6> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<7> 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> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1975. |
<2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Maidstone Kent 26 Feb 1987 126. |
<3> | OS Card Reference: English Homes 1066-1558 2 145 (H A Tipping). |
<4> | OS Card Reference: English Homes 1066-1558 2 145 (H A Tipping). |
<5> | OS Card Reference: Country Life 46 270-279. |
<6>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #14377 House, ] |
<7> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |