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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 86 SW 97
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:PARK VALLEY HOUSE, Detling

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1433 to 1899 The house consists of the upper end & former open hall of a late-medieval house of Wealden form. It was probably built within the second half of the C15


Grid Reference:TQ 8116 6095
Map Sheet:TQ86SW
Parish:DETLING, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1460 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1336270: PARK VALLEY HOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 86 SW DETLING LOWER COX STREET (east side)
2/128 Park Valley House (formerly listed as 26.4.6 Park Valley)
GV II
House. Mid-to-late. C15 and C19. Timber framed with rendered infilling to ground floor, and first floor completely rendered. Ground floor in flint to right. Plain tile roof. Wealden house with two equal open hall bays, storeyed bay to left. Probably a storeyed bay to right, rebuilt in C19. 2 storeys on plinth. Left end bay jettied to front and left end. Former open hall built out on first floor to form continuous jetty, right bay of which underbuilt in flint to match right end bay. Roof hipped to left and gabled to right at junction with C19 bay. Roof of C19 bay has higher eaves, lower ridge, and hip at right end. Brick stack in front slope of roof off-centre to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 one, two and three- light casements. C19 ribbed door with segmental head at right end of timber-framed section. Interior: has steeply cambered tie-beam, moulded crown-post and end of hall beam. Late C16 inserted first floor in hall area. Heavy scantling timbers.
Listing NGR: TQ8116260956 (1)

Description from record TQ 86 SW 25 :
A timber framed house with a formerly open 2-bay hall and upper (N) end of a Wealden house. The form of the original lower end is uncertain. This was replaced in the late 18th century or early 19th century. The upper end is jettied to the end as well as the front (2)

Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/01/226 Labelled sheet of drawings of Park Valley House, Detling, with a ground-floor plan, a crown-post elevation, and dais beam and hall window sill sections BF008560 PARK VALLEY HOUSE, 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>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #28953 Listed Building, ]
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.