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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 74 NE 41
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Little Ashurst, Chart Sutton

Summary

Little Ashurst Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1899


Grid Reference:TQ 7991 4733
Map Sheet:TQ74NE
Parish:CHART SUTTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1060945: LITTLE ASHURST

Full description

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Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TQ 74 NE 117:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CHART SUTTON ASHURST COURT TQ 74 NE ROAD [west side] 4/23 Little Ashurst 26.4.68 GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C15 or early C16 with C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick on coursed stone base. First floor tile-hung, with base of tile- hanging raised across central section. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Formerly jettied at least to left and right gable ends; part of left gable end jetty exposed. Steeply pitched roof hipped to left, gabled to right hall bay. Right end bay hipped with lower ridge. Stack to left of centre and slender projecting stack to left end. Rear dormer. Irregular fenestration of 5 casements; three 3-light and 2 adjacent single lights. Ribbed door up 3 steps in brick and stone lean-to porch beneath stack. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7991747337 (1)

End jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall and with both ends jettied. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040442 LITTLE ASHURST, CHART SUTTON 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. RCH01/048/01/151 Labelled sheet of drawings of Little Ashurst, Chart Sutton, with a ground-floor plan and an crown-post elevation


<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.