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Monument details

HER Number:TR 14 NE 110
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, Mann's Hill, Bossingham

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1799 Medieval house, probably C16. Later alterations End jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. The lower end was formerly jettied and the upper end may have been so.


Grid Reference:TR 6152 1488
Map Sheet:TR61SW
Parish:UPPER HARDRES, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • FARMHOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1450 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1085509: COTTAGE FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 UPPER HARDRES MANN'S HILL (north-east side) Bossingham
Cottage Farmhouse TR 14 NE 17/612
II
2. Originally L-shaped. C16 or earlier timber-framed building. The angle of the L was filled in in the Cl8. Two storeys faced with roughcast and painted brick. Hipped tiled roof with C17 brick chimneystack. Casement windows. Three windows facing west, 2 windows facing south. Simple doorcase.
Listing NGR: TR1523748801 (1)

End jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. The lower end was formerly jettied and the upper end may have been so. (2)

Description from record TR 14 NE 21 :
Medieval house, probably C16. Later alterations

Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/01/701 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Cottage Farmhouse, Bossingham. BF039683 COTTAGE FARMHOUSE, UPPER HARDRES


<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: #23308 Listed building, ]
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.