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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 84 NW 217 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | LITTLE HEARNDEN |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1493 to 1532.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8267 4654 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ84NW |
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| Parish: | HEADCORN, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1493 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1060836: LITTLE HEARNDEN |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEADCORN EAST SUTTON ROAD TQ 84 NW (South-East side) 5/47 Little Hearnden 26.4.68 II
House of farmhouse. C15 or early C16. Timber framed with plaster infilling and plain tile roof. Wealden with 2 almost equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys. Close-studded. Right and left end bays jettied, jetties returning on moulded dragon posts. Arch braces to flying wall-plate. Hipped roof. Rear stack towards left end and multiple brick ridge stack in right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of three 3-light leaded casements; one to each end bay and one to left hall bay. Mortices for 2-storey bay window to right of left door. Ribbed doors; to left end of hall and to left of right end bay. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8270546614
Dendrochronology dating of the roof gave a felling date of 1493. (2)
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 34, Pg. 96 (Website). SKE17391.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 34, Pg. 96. |
