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Monument details

HER Number:TR 02 NW 26
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Godhall

Summary

Grade II timber framed farmhouse. Late 16th century with late 18thC facade restored in late 20thC. Main construction periods 1567 to 1999


Grid Reference:TR 00049 28706
Map Sheet:TR02NW
Parish:BRENZETT, SHEPWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1567 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1061147: GODHALL

Full description

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Description from record TR 02 NW 68:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 001 287 BRENZETT
6/7 Godhall (formerly listed as Codhall) 9.6.59 II
Farmhouse. Late C16 with late C18 facade, restored in late C20. Timber framed. Ground floor weatherboarded, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 5 timber-framed bays, floored from beginning through- out; 2-bay hall, with single-bay room to right of it and single bay containing stack and cross-passage to left. Single bay at left end of house (to left of cross-passage) divided axially into two rooms. First floor differently divided. 2 storeys and attic on brick plinth. Hipped roof, with gablet to right. Multiple brick ridge stack in front slope of roof towards left end and slender projecting stack at left end. Irregular fenestration of four 3-light casements, C20 ribbed door immediately to left of stack. Interior: exposed timbers. 3 four- centred arched ground-floor doorways; 2 service doorways with hollow spandrels and one parlour doorway with scrolls to spandrels, none in original position. 3 first-floor doorways with plain dropped heads, one next to original window cill in right gable end. Evidence for stairs behind stack, against rear wall. Original partitions. 4-lights of an 8-light frieze window with ogee mullions, in rear wall of hall. Clasped purlin roof with principal rafters trenched over purlins, cambered collars with vertical queen-struts, intermediate collars, and ogee windbraces.
Listing NGR: TR0005028707 (1)

Early fully floored house, one of the earliest surviving buildings in the area of Romney Marsh. It has 5 bays including a 2-bay hall, chimney stack and former cross-passage in an extra bay. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040340 GODHALL, BRENZETT 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. RCH01/048/01/110 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Godhall, Brenzett


<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.