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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1532

Monument Types

• WEALDEN HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TQ 74 SE 200:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST HUSHEATH HILL TQ 74 SE (West side)
3/148 Little Harts Heath and No. 23.5.67 2 Little Harts Heath
GV II*
House, now 2 houses. C15 or early C16. Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with one long storeyed left end bay and 2 roughly equal-length open-hall bays. Storeyed right end bay, and possibly a third hall bay, no longer extant. 2 storeys and attic. Close-studded. Left end bay jettied, left end underbuilt in painted brick. Short arch brace to left end of flying wall-plate, later brace to right end. 2 principal posts to centre and present right end of open hall have full-height slender attached shafts with moulded polygonal capitals. Close-studded coving beneath flying wall-plate. Steeply- pitched roof hipped to left and presently gabled to right. Multiple filleted red and grey brick stack in front slope of roof to right end of long left bay. Small gabled 2-light dormer. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded casements; one 3-light to left end bay, one 3-light to left hall bay and one 2-light to right hall bay. Boarded door to left side and to right end. Timber-framed lean-to to right with tall slender stack. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7550041193 (1)

Dendrochronology dating gave a date of 1507. (2)

Archive material (3)

Timber framed house of Wealden form with an originally floored hall and brick chimney. This is considered to be the earliest surviving fully floored house in Kent. The upper end has a contemporary cross wing. The lower end was earlier and has been demolished. (4)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 24, Pg. 40 (Website). SKE17391.

<3> Historic England, Archive material associated with Little Harts Heath, Staplehurst, Listed building (Archive). SKE53950.

<4> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

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