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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 SE 164
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:BROWNS STORES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1899


Grid Reference:TQ 8801 4232
Map Sheet:TQ84SE
Parish:SMARDEN, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • BUILDING (Medieval to Modern - 1450 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1362689: BROWNS STORES AND PARSONAGE HOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 SMARDEN THE STREET (north side) Parsonage House and Browns Stores (formerly listed as West End House under High Street) TQ 8842 29/2 14.2.67.
II GV
2. The shop portion facing the street is C19, red brick and grey headers, having a gable with fretted bargeboards. The house behind it facing the churchyard is an L-shaped timber-framed, probably C15, building with some plaster and some painted brick infilling and some close-studding. Gable at the south end of the west front containing an attic window. The eaves of the south front overhang widely on the longitudinal beam and brackets. Tiled roof. Some original mullioned windows and some casement windows. C19 porch to south front. Two storeys. Three windows facing west, 2 windows facing south. The courtyard to the south is paved with Bethersden Marble.
Listing NGR: TQ8802142326 (1)

Upper end and one and half bays of an end jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. It is possible that the upper end of the house was non-domestic. Post medieval alterations include the heightening of the roof in the 17th century, the addition of a rear wing possibly also in 17th century and the demolition of the lower end and replacement in the 19th century with the existing structure. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040468 PARSONAGE HOUSE, SMARDEN File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/614 Labelled sheet of drawings of Parsonage House, Smarden, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor and a dais beam profile


<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>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.