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Monument details

Summary

Manor House, built circa 1570 Grade I listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1599

Monument Types

• MANOR HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1567 AD to 2050 AD)

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[TQ 8435 5528] Manor House [NR] (1) The Manor House. Garden wall and gates. Hollingbourne. Grade I. On the map marked as "A.D.1500". But the house was probably built about 1570. Originally an E-shaped building but the north-east wing was burned down, so that it is now L-shaped plus the porch. To the north-east is a good flint and brick garden wall and to the south-west a good wrought iron double garden gates. (2) The Manor House is as described and is in good condition. See GP AO/62/298/7-8. (3) TQ 84355528. Hollingbourne Manor, an impressive and well preserved manor house. (4) Hollingbourne Manor. Grade I. "Fragments of thick-walled, possibly 13c. building in south-west corner; pointed-arched stone opening to south end of hall". (5) Additional bibliography. (6-8)

Description from record TQ 85 NW 188:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HOLLINGBOURNE UPPER STREET TQ 85 NW (West side)
1/192 Hollingbourne Manor 20.10.52
GV I
Manor house. Late C16. Red brick in English bond. Plain tile roof. Unfinished E-plan; north wing only partly built. 2 storeys and attics. Brick plinth with moulded stone coping. Broad moulded brick string-course with rendered base above ground-floor windows. Brick corbel table to eaves with rendered moulded brick cornice above. Rendered quoins to first floor. 4 broad brick stacks in English bond, each with 3 diagonally-set flues; one projecting to each gable end of south wing, with plinth, string- course and cornice continued round and one to rear wall towards each end of main range. Kneelered triangular gables with flattened rectangular tops and heavily moulded rendered brick coping. 5 full storey-height brick eaves dormers, similarly gabled, with fat rendered cylindrical finials protruding through coping; 2 dormers to north side of south wing, 3 to main range, including porch. A further 3 to south elevation, possibly C19. Courtyard dormers, except that to porch, are carried on slightly projecting 2-storey brick window bays, that in the re-entrant angle deeper, to light staircase. Ogee-moulded wooden mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights and rendered dressings; 6-light to dormers with stepped moulded rendered hoodmoulds, returning as dormer eaves cornices, 8-light to first floor and 10-light to ground floor. One 4-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor of south wing between the 2 bays. Small 2-light mullioned window over door. Ribbed door with 4-centred arched moulded stone architrave with carved spandrels and squared moulded hoodmould. Outer walls of north wing built up to ground-floor string course, now with flat roof over. Shallow rectangular turret towards centre of north gable end of main range: probably late C16, red brick in English bond, of 2 low storeys, with eaves cornice and gable similar to main range; round-headed first-floor window to gable with hollow-chamfered brick architrave. Rear lean-to: red brick in English bond, 2 low storeys on plain brick plinth, with moulded 4-centred arched stone doorway not aligned with screens passage. 3-storey stair turret behind left stack of main range; red brick in English bond, with plain gable. Interior: only partly inspected. Wooden screen to left of former screens passage, with ovolo-moulded rails and muntins-and-pierced trelliswork to top. Moulded beams. Moulded wooden rear doorway. Moulded 4-centred arched stone fireplaces. Open well staircase to south wing, with turned balusters, moulded string and handrail and polygonal finials and pendants to newels. Said to be C16 wall paintings to upper floor of south wing. C18 panelling to first floor of main range. Ground-floor panelling, largely early C20. Fragments of thick-walled, possibly C13 building in south-west corner; pointed-arched-stone opening to south end of hall.
Listing NGR: TQ8444555344 (13)

Archive material: AL0746 Hollingbourne Manor, Hollingbourne This album has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
BF113134 Hollingbourne Manor, Upper Street, Hollingbourne (9-12)

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

<2> MHLG Prov List Hollingbourne R.D. Nov 1960 47 no. 31/7 (OS Card Reference). SKE47155.

<3> F1 ASP 26-Jun-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42309.

<4> F2 MJF 19-Mar-86 (OS Card Reference). SKE43349.

<5> DOE (HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 21 November 1986 92 (OS Card Reference). SKE39933.

<6> Bldgs of Eng NE & E Kent 1983 355-356 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37763.

<7> Arch J 82 1925 114-115 (R H Goodsall) (OS Card Reference). SKE36688.

<8> Arch Cant 49 1937 189-194 (A Vallance) (OS Card Reference). SKE35239.

<9> Field report for monument TQ 85 NW 16 - June, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4435.

<10> Field report for monument TQ 85 NW 16 - March, 1986 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4436.

<11> SOUTH EAST FRONT OF HOLLINGBOURNE MANOR HOUSE FROM SOUTH (Photograph). SKE2584.

<12> HOLLINGBOURNE MANOR HOUSE - SOUTH WEST WING FROM SOUTH (Photograph). SKE2585.

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

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