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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 66 SW 53
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:OWLS CASTLE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1799


Grid Reference:TQ 6354 6319
Map Sheet:TQ66SW
Parish:MEOPHAM, GRAVESHAM, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1350207: OWLS CASTLE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 66 SW MEOPHAM WROTHAM ROAD 7/104 (west side)
Owls Castle
II
C16 timber-framed "hall" house. Cased in red brick with grey headers in C18 when it was an inn. Hipped thatched roof with pentice at west end of south front. Some casement windows, some sashes with glazing bars. Much original timber framing exposed internally.
Listing NGR: TQ6354863195 (1)

Timber framed house of 2 phases of such similar construction that they were probably planned together. The first phase comprised 4 bays. The second phase was the addition of 2 further bays. The building may not have been fully domestic. (2)

HIStoric England archive material (3)


<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.

<3> Historic England, Archive material associated with Owls Castle, Meopham, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57150.

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.
<3>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Owls Castle, Meopham, Listed Building.