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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 74 NE 125
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:DUNBURY FARMHOUSE, Chart Hill Road, Chart Sutton

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1300 to 1399 Timber framed house of two main medieval phases, the earlier of which is a late 14th century hall range probably aisled and the later phase is the addition of a lower end cross-wing


Grid Reference:TQ 7916 4628
Map Sheet:TQ74NE
Parish:CHART SUTTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1060947: DUNBURY FARMHOUSE

Full description

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Description from record TQ 74 NE 23 :
[TQ 791462] Dunbury Farm (NAT) (1) Dunbury Farmhouse, Grade II* c14th c with later alterations. Timber framed. (2)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CHART SUTTON CHART HILL TQ 792 463 ROAD (east side) 4/28 Dunbury Farmhouse GV II*
Farmhouse. C14 with later alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. Probably open hall with rear aisle, bay to left end and flush 2-bay cross-wing to right end. 2 storeys and attics. Continuous ground-floor. Cross-wing jettied to front and long right side. Roof of hall range hipped to left. Hipped roof to wing with higher eaves and ridge and large gablet. Ridge stack at junction of hall and wing. 2 hipped rear dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; one 2- light and one 3-light to main range and one 3-light to wing. Boarded door under stack. Rear lean-to to hall, formerly an aisle. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded octagonal crown- post to wing, on moulded cambered tie-beam with large moulded solid-spandrel braces and doubly hollow-chamfered principal posts. Largely reassembled hall roof with trenches for collars. Long cut jowls to hall posts. Moulded doorway with depressed ogee head between hall range and wing. Moulded brackets beneath ground-floor ceiling beams. Evidence for windows and possible garderobe to rear gable end of wing. Listing NGR: TQ7963349807 (3)

Archive material (4)


<1> 1:10000 1971 (OS Card Reference). SKE32743.

<2> DOE (HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 18 December 1985 19 (OS Card Reference). SKE39920.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with Dunbury Farmhouse, Listed Building (Archive). SKE53944.

<5> 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>OS Card Reference: 1:10000 1971.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 18 December 1985 19.
<3>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #27776 House, ]
<4>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Dunbury Farmhouse, Listed Building.
<5>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.