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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 74 NE 42
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1379 to 1466


Grid Reference:TQ 7902 4803
Map Sheet:TQ74NE
Parish:CHART SUTTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1379 AD to 2050 AD)
  • TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1379 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1344283: CHART HALL FARMHOUSE

Full description

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Description from record TQ 74 NE 111:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CHART SUTTON GREEN LANE TQ 74 NE [south side} 4/40 Chart Hall Farmhouse 26.4.68 (formerly listed as Chart Bottom Farmhouse) GV II
Farmhouse. Early-to-mid C15 or earlier. Timber framed. Ground floor painted brick, first floor exposed framing. Plain tile roof. Wealden; 2-bay open hall with right bay sub-divided by full- height post, and broad storeyed right end bay. 2 storeys and attics. Broadly-spaced studding. Both principal posts of central truss have long cut jowls facing right hall bay. Tension braces to right end bay. Right end bay jettied, jetty formerly returning. Solid braces to flying wall-plate. Bracket beneath central tie-beam and beneath an apparent tie-beam to centre of each hall bay. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of right end bay. Gabled dormer. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows; two 2-light casements to left hall bay, one 3-light casement and one 4-light diamond wood mullion windows to right hall bay, and one 5-light casement to right end bay. Head of tall, narrow durns to right end of right hall bay. Inserted doorway with moulded jambs and 4-centred arched head beneath stack. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7902448038

Dendrochronology dating of the hall and service-end of the wealden house gave a date of 1379/80. (2)

The earliest certain Wealden house recorded of which a formerly open 2-bay hall and lower end survive. The upper end has been demolished but there is evidence that it formerly existed, was of the same date as the hall and was jettied. (3)

Historic England archive material (4)


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

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 22, Pg. 43 (Website). SKE17391.

<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57212.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 22, Pg. 43.
<3>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
<4>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Chart Hall Farmhouse, Chart Sutton, Listed Building.