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Monument details

Summary

C15th timber-framed house

Summary from record TQ 84 SE 184:

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1671

Monument Types

• HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1400 AD to 1671 AD)
• HOUSE (HOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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(TQ 87934233) Hartnup House (NAT) (1) 5272 SMARDEN WATER LANE Hartnup House TQ 8742 23/16 17.9.52. II* 2. L-shaped timber-framed building. The north-west wing is probably C15. It has plaster infilling colour-washed. The ground floor is close- studded. The first floor oversails on both fronts on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets. Dragon beam with moulded post. Hipped tiled roof. Casement windows with small square leaded panes. Two storeys and attics. three windows and 2 hipped dormers facing north-west, one window and one hipped dormer facing north-east. The south-east wing was added by Matthew Hartnup in 1671. This has red brick infilling and one bay window of 5 lights on the ground and first floors, with a gable oversailing on a bressummer, carved with the figures of 2 hippopotami and between these the words "Matthew Hartnup" and containing and attic window with the date 1671 over it. The south-east window bay of this wing has been refaced in red brick and grey headers. Two windows. Doorcase with single petalled roses of York and Lancaster. The courtyard to Hartnup House is paved with Bethersden marble. (2) Hartnup House, a find T-shaped half-timbered house. The date 1671 refers only to the gable and the windowbay below it. The rest is a century or more older, the north wing overhanging three ways, the south wing brick-nogged. (3)

Description from record TQ 84 SE 184:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 SMARDEN WATER LANE Hartnup House TQ 8742 23/16 17.9.52.
II*
2. L-shaped timber-framed building. The north-west wing is probably C15. It has plaster infilling colour-washed. The ground floor is close-studded. The first floor oversails on both fronts on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets. Dragon beam with moulded post. Hipped tiled roof. Casement windows with small square leaded panes. Two storeys and attics. Three windows and 2 hipped dormers facing north-west, one window and one hipped dormer facing north-east. The south-east wing was added by Matthew Hartnup in 1671. This has red brick infilling and one bay window of 5 lights on the ground and first floors, with a gable oversailing on a bessummer, carved with the figures of 2 hippototami and between these the words, "Matthew Hartnup" and containing an attic window with the date 1671 over it. The south-east window bay of this wing has been refaced in red brick and grey headers. Two windows. Doorcase with single petalled roses of York and Lancaster. The courtyard to Hartnup House is paved with Bethersden marble.
Listing NGR: TQ8792342335

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

<2> DOE (HHR) Boro of Ashford Kent Oct 1980 244 (OS Card Reference). SKE39826.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 532 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37960.

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