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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 94 NW 230
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:JENNINGS FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1540


Grid Reference:TQ 9315 4599
Map Sheet:TQ94NW
Parish:PLUCKLEY, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1071447: JENNINGS FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 PLUCKLEY CHARING ROAD Jennings Farmhouse TQ 9345 27/14 14.2.67. II 2. Probably a late mediaeval hall-house. A timber-framed building, with the timber- framing and plaster infilling exposed in the north-west wall, the ground floor partly refaced with stone rubble but wholly refronted on the south-west side, with stone rubble on the ground floor and tile-hung above. Steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof. Four Dering windows.
Listing NGR: TQ9315145993 (1)

Dendrochronology dating gave a date range of 1490-1524. (2)

Formerly open 2-bay hall and upper end of a medieval house survive. The upper end may originally have been jettied. Medieval lower end was replaced circa 1600. (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. 20, 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 Jennings Farmhouse, Pluckly, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57095.

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. 20, 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 Jennings Farmhouse, Pluckly, Listed Building.