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Monument details

HER Number:TR 05 SE 249
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:MONKTON MANOR

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1732 End-jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. Both ends are jettied with probably an overshot passagedating from late in the medieval period. Later alterations

Grid Reference:TR 6069 1528
Map Sheet:TR61NW
Parish:CHILHAM, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1071282: MONKTON MANOR

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 SE CHILHAM MOUNTAIN STREET (east side)
4/17 No.6 Monkton Manor (formerly listed as'Herons Way and 27.ll.57 Cottage adjoining')
GV II
Hall house. C15 and C18.Timber framed and partly clad in painted brick with painted rubble plinth; plain tile roof. 2 storeys with end jetties, and hipped roof with large stack centre left and stack rear-right. 3 bays, with screens passage (?) now with inserted stack. Central bay ground floor rebuilt in painted brick, with first-floor joists at higher level than 2 side bays, suggesting infilled and ceiled-over central recessed hall of "Wealden" house. Irregular fenestration of 3 casement windows. C20 plank door centre left. Rear wing: early C18 red brick, with hipped plain tile roof. 2 storeys with plinth and plat band and stack to right. Two windows to each floor, wood casements, with segmental heads to ground floor.
Listing NGR: TR0706153325 (1)

Description from record TR 05 SE 53:
End-jetty house dating from late in the medieval period. Later alterations

End-jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. Both ends are jettied with probably an overshot passage (2)

Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/01/193 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Monkton Manor, Chilham BF008830 MONKTON MANOR, CHILHAM


<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>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #20530 Listed Building, ]
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.