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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 75 NE 441 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | HARPOLE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1799 Complex building of many post-medieval phases, which includes a fragment of an earlier house and a re-set medieval roof with smoke blackened timbers.
Grid Reference: | TQ 7858 5830 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ75NE |
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Parish: | DETLING, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BUILDING (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1336269: HARPOLE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 75 NE DETLING HARPLE LANE (west side)
5/125 Harpole 21.6.77 II
House. C15 and C18. In 4 sections. Right section: C15. A fragment. Timber framed with cement rendering and plain tile roof. 2 storeys, first floor jettied to front and rear. Roof hipped to right and now gabled to left. Multiple brick ridge stack at left end. One unglazed first-floor window. Lean-to at right end with small projecting stack. Left and central sections: C18, with earlier fragment at right end. Painted brick with plain tile roof, right end possibly with timber-framed core. Set much lower than jettied section. 2 storeys. Roof gabled to left but with lean-to roof forming hip half way down gable. At right end, towards junction with jettied section, short section of relatively steeply pitched roof with ridge only slightly lower than that of jettied end. Rear elevation of this section now cement rendered, flush with plane of jetty. Front elevation encased by brick of left section. Projecting stone stack to left gable end. Irregular fenestration of 2-light first-floor casements, 3 ground-floor casements with segmental heads. Plank door in lean-to at left end. Rear wing to centre of rear elevation. Late C18. Painted brick. 2 storeys with dentilled eaves cornice, roof hipped to rear. Brick stack towards rear end. 2 two- light casements and single-storey lean-to to north elevation.
Listing NGR: TQ7857558277
Description from record TQ 75 NE 177:
Complex building of many post-medieval phases, which includes a fragment of an earlier house and a re-set medieval roof (2)
Historic England archive material: BF008558 HARPOLE FARM, DETLING
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> 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> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
<2> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |