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Monument details

Summary

16th/17th c Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1533 to 1666

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1533 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 8623 5863] Bicknor Court [NR] (1) Bicknor Court is a timber framed building, the east-west wing having a 17th c. red brick exterior. A clay and straw partition is incribed "T.E 158 - " (2)(3) Court Lodge (Erected A.D. 1638) [NAT] (4) Bicknor Court, as described above, has been neglected for many years, but is at present undergoing complete restoration. See GP's AO/62/228/3 from N;/4 from SW. (5) Court Lodge (formerly listed as Bicknor Court). Grade II* Mid 16 c. and late 16 c. with mid 17 c. refacing. (6) Bicknor Court. This impressive building is as described but in a somewhat run-down condition. (7) Additional bibliography. (8-10)

Description from record TQ 85 NE 71:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 85 NE BICKNOR BICKNOR LANE (east side)
7/46 Court Lodge 26.4.68 (formerly listed as II* Bicknor Court)
House. Mid C16 and late C16 with mid C17 refacing. Timber framed with plaster infilling and some brick nogging, exposed in east wing. Most clad in, and added to in, red brick in English bond with sortie grey headers. Plain tile roof. Mid C16 range parallel to and set well back from road, 3 timber-framed bays with large stack to end of central bay and projecting rear stair turret. Late C16 range at right-angles to front, forming T plan; one long and one short timber-framed bay. Later addition along most of south elevation containing stairs. Mid C16 range 2 storeys, late C16 range 2 storeys and attic. North elevation: Mid C16 range to left on flint plinth, rest on brick plinth. Mid C16 range has broadly-spaced studding with slightly curved tension braces. Late C16 range has moulded brick string-course stepped over windows and door and returning along right end elevation. Roofs merge at junction, otherwise hipped. Multiple brick ridge stack towards centre of mid C16 range. Late C16 range has brick ridge stack towards right end and brick stack on flint base with 2 diagonal flues to right end. Mid C16 range has one 2-light and one 4-light ovolo- moulded wood mullion window, the latter with moulded bracket under. Late C16 range has irregular fenestration of 3 chamfered brick mullion windows rendered to resemble stone, and a full-height C20 mullioned and transomed window. Plank door to north end of west elevation of Mid C16 wing and plank door in C19 architrave to left end of late C16 wing. South elevation: brick addition to late C16 range with more vitreous bricks than north elevation. No string-course. 2 gables, each with rendered brick mullion window to attic. Three 3-light mullioned windows to first floor with hood-moulds, and 2 to ground floor. Central C19 plank door with carved spandrels. Recess between this addition and end of mid C16 range contains 5-light brick mullion window. Gable end of mid C16 range also cased in brick, with plinth. flipped roof. One single-light and one 3-light plain wood casements to first floor and 2 two-light brick mullioned windows on ground floor with hood-moulds over. Interior: reputed to have exposed framing, large finely-carved wood fireplace bressumer, staircase with turned balusters, original shutter to window in mid C16 range, clasped purlin roofs, partitions dated 158- and 162(2), and datestone 1638 removed from late C16 wing. (R.C.H.M. Report 1961). On O.S. map called Court Lodge. Listing NGR: TQ8623858635 (13)

HE archive material: BF008546 COURT LODGE, BICKNOR File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.

<1> OS 6" 1961 (OS Card Reference). SKE48369.

<2> MHLG Prov list 2153/11/A Hollingbourne RD Nov 1960 p.la no 7/2 (OS Card Reference). SKE47145.

<3> Arch Cant 76 1961 192 (L R A Grove) (OS Card Reference). SKE35590.

<4> OS 25" 1908 (OS Card Reference). SKE48259.

<5> F1 ASP 29-OCT-62 (OS Card Reference). SKE42350.

<6> DOE (HHR) Boro of Maidstone Kent 20 July 1984 23 (OS Card Reference). SKE39881.

<7> F2 MJF 18-MAR-86 (OS Card Reference). SKE43347.

<8> Mons Threatened or Destroyed-A select list 1956-1962 RCHM(E) 196344 (OS Card Reference). SKE47334.

<9> Bldgs of Eng N & NE Kent 1969 137 (N Pevsner & J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37736.

<10> Bldgs of Eng-North East & East Kent 1983 141 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38122.

<11> Field report for monument TQ 85 NE 2 - October, 1962 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4394.

<12> Field report for monument TQ 85 NE 2 - March, 1986 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4395.

<13> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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