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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 SW 61
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Thatchers, East Farleigh

Summary

Thatchers : listed building Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1532


Grid Reference:TQ 7297 5337
Map Sheet:TQ75SW
Parish:EAST FARLEIGH, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1450 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1249662: THATCHERS

Full description

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Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TQ 75 SW 140:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LOWER ROAD TQ 75 SW EAST FARLEIGH (North Side) 2/51 Thatchers GV II House, formerly 2 cottages, now house. Early C16 or earlier. Timber framed with rendered infilling. Thatched roof. Open hall of 2 timber- framed bays, with storeyed end bays. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Broadly-spaced studding of thin scantling. Arch braces. Higher midrail to left hall bay. Hipped roof. Multiple brick right stack to left hall bay and projecting brick gable end stack to right, on stone plinth. Irregular fenestration of three C20 wooden oriel windows. French doors to left end of right end bay and blocked door under stack. Interior: exposed framing. 3 fireplaces (2 ground floor, one first floor) with tooled, chamfered stone jambs. Collared common rafter roof. Lath and daub end-of-hall partitions in roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7297753374 (1)

Unjettied house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. The lower end may have been originally floored. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040332 THATCHERS, EAST FARLEIGH 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. RCH01/048/01/235 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Thatchers, East Farleigh


<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.