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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 84 NW 57 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | Converted Barn, Moatenden Priory, Headcorn |
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Summary
Grade II early to mid 18th century timber-framed barn close to Moatenden Priory, converted into a house in 1995.
Summary from record TQ 84 NW 149:
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1851
| Grid Reference: | TQ 81831 46342 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ84NW |
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| Parish: | HEADCORN, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1851 AD)
- TIMBER FRAMED BARN (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD? to 1995 AD)
- HOUSE (Modern - 1995 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1344310: BARN ABOUT 73 METRES SOUTH WEST OF MOATENDEN PRIORY |
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Full description
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Grade II early to mid 18th century timber framed weatherboarded barn with a plain tile roof. Central double doors to north, flush with aisle and rising to flat roofed canopy. Single door to left. Central full height double doors to right. Internally five timber framed bays with central midstrey with Aisle to south. Cut jowls to principal posts. Short arch braces. Long raking braces to midstrey partition. Staggered butt purlin roof. Date 1851 scratch on weatherboarding.
The underpinning trenches excavated in connection with the conversion work indicated a series of small ditches all of a similar date and type underlying the site of the barn. Although they lacked any datable finds it would appear likely that they represent a continuation of the small ditches visible on air photographs (TQ 84 NW 60) which possibly formed a network of small enclosures for crops and/or livestock and maybe associated with either the Medieval priory, or the earlier manorial site. However in the light of Romano-British material located 80m NE of the barn, it cannot be ruled out that some of the ditches could be earlier than Medieval although no similar Romano-British material has been found in the area of the barn. (1-2)
Description from record TQ 84 NW 149:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEADCORN MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 84 NW (West Side) Hawkenbury
Barn about 73 metres 5/61 south west of Moatenden Priory
GV II
Barn. Early C18. Timber framed, weatherboarded, on stone plinth, with hipped plain tile roof. Central double doors to east, flush with aisle and rising to flat-roofed canopy. Single door to left. Central full-height double doors to right. Interior: 5 timber-framed bays with central midstrey. Aisle to east. Cut jowls to Principal posts. Short arch braces. Long raking braces to midstrey partition. Staggered butt purlin roof. Date 1851 scratched on weatherboarding.
Listing NGR: TQ8188946407
<1> Aldridge, N., 1995, The Trinitarian Priory of Motynden at Headcorn (Article in serial). SKE8012.
<2> Aldridge, N, 1995, Moatenden Barn Conversion, Headcorn, Watching Brief 1995 (Unpublished document). SKE8014.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Article in serial: Aldridge, N.. 1995. The Trinitarian Priory of Motynden at Headcorn. CXV pages 177- 212. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Aldridge, N. 1995. Moatenden Barn Conversion, Headcorn, Watching Brief 1995. |
