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Monument details

HER Number:TR 14 NE 104
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:MAYTREE COTTAGE, Mann's Hill, Bossingham

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799


Grid Reference:TR 15359 48715
Map Sheet:TR14NE
Parish:UPPER HARDRES, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1045867: MAYTREE COTTAGE AND MAYTREE FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 UPPER HARDRES MANN'S HILL (south-east side) Bossingham
Maytree Farmhouse and Maytree Cottage TR 14 NE 17/611
II
2. C18 exterior to earlier timber-framed building. Two storeys, right hand part stuccoed, the left hand part weatherboarded. Steeply pitched slate roof. Three sashes. On the right hand side is Maytree Cottage also of 2 storeys stuccoed with slate roof, and one casement. Weatherboarded outshut to left hand side. Simple doorcases.
Listing NGR: TR1536448718 (1)

Formerly open 2-bay hall and medieval house. The lower is end jettied at end. The upper was rebuilt in the post medieval period. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040073 MAY TREE FARMHOUSE, UPPER HARDRES 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. RCH01/048/01/705 Labelled sheet of drawings of May Tree Farmhouse, Bossingham, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, a scarf joint detail, and a perspective sketch showing a date on an inserted stack


<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.