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Monument details

Summary

Early C16th timber-framed house Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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1715 OAKS ROAD Hales Place TQ 8833 1/125 8.5.50. II* GV 2. A large early C16 timber-framed L-shaped house which has been considerably altered at later dates. It is now fronted partly with red brick, partly with red mathematical tiles and partly with weather tiles, but one strip of timber-framing is still visible. Tiled roof. A few original windows with wooden mullions and diamond panes. Some C18 sash windows with glazing bars intact, and modern windows. Brick chimney stacks. Doorcase on south side with caryatid columns and four-centred arch. On the north side is a doorcase with a flat hood over supported by grotesque caryatids and a 10 panelled door. Good staircase, panelling, fireplaces and ceiling beams inside. 1718. Seven bays by four. Architectural description. Garden Turrets in grounds of Hales Place TQ 8833 1/125B 8.5.50. II* GV 2 early C16 low octagonal red brick turrets with castellated parapets and a wall connecting them. Each side has double blank lancets with hood moulding over. Brick coping. No roofs. (1) (TQ 8863340) Hales Place (NAT) (TQ 88863349 and TQ 88903348, Garden Turrets located as octagonal unroofed structures grade II*. (2) The Elizabethan Hales Place has all gone except a wide and deep four centred brick entrance arch, 17th century grotesque brackets on the front door of the present house. There are remains of an Elizabethan garden. Brick walls, enclose a rectangle with octagonal two storeyed pavilions at the east corners. They are of brick, and have blocked arched lights in pairs and, by the doorways, elongated Tuscan columns. Outside the the rectangle, a little Wellhouse with crowstepped gables. (3)

Description from record TQ 83 SE 102:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 1715 OAKS ROAD
Hales Place TQ 8833 1/125 8.5.50.
II* GV
2. A large early Cl6 timber-framed L-shaped house which has been considerably altered at later dates. It is now fronted partly with red brick, partly with red mathematical tiles and partly with weather tiles, but one strip of timber-framing is still visible. Tiled roof. A few original windows with wooden mullions and diamond panes. Some C18 sash windows with glazing bars intact, and modern windows. Brick chimney stacks. Doorcase on south side with caryatid columns and four-centred arch. On the north side is a doorcase with a flat hood over supported by grotesque caryatids and a 10 panelled door. Good staircase, panelling, fireplaces and ceiling beams inside. Hales Place and the listed buildings in the grounds form a group. Listing NGR: TQ8884733400 (4)

<1> DOE (HHR) Boro of Tenterden Kent June 1982 43-44 (OS Card Reference). SKE39892.

<2> OS 1:2500 1971 (OS Card Reference). SKE48213.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 2nd Ed 1980 565 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38029.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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