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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 55 SE 75 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | BLACK CHARLES |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1699. Restored Medieval house and wall
| Grid Reference: | TQ 55522 52410 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ55SE |
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| Parish: | SEAL, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
- WALL (WALL, Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1243688: BLACK CHARLES |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 SEAL UNDERRIVER
Black Charles TQ 5552 26/1090 10.9.54.
II* GV
2. Restored late mediaeval hall house, witn later C16 chimney and ceiling. 2 storeys and attic, irregular windows. High pitched tiled roof. Moulded wood eaves cornice. One gabled dormer. Tile hung 1st floor. Brick ground floor with stone plinth. Leased casement windows. Projecting 2-storey porch. Left extension formerly an outbuilding. Right extension, probably of C17, with random stone ground floor, tile hanging above. Sun assurance sign on eaves cornice. Inside mugh panelling: imported linenfold in left extension, plain Elizabethan in central room, Queen Anne period elsewhere. Much exposed timber including remains of screens passage; and carved crown post. Many assembly marks on timbers. Restored inglenook. Former jettied right end, with C16 window, vmsible inside C17 extension. Carved figure, possibly representing a thresher, on bay post in entrance hall. Black Charles, Outbuilding and Wall form a group. Listing NGR: TQ5552052406 (1)
Description from record TQ 55 SE 29 :
(TQ 55525241) Black Charles (NAT) (2) 5280 SEAL UNDERRIVER Black Charles TQ 5552 26/1090 10.9.54. II* GV 2. Restored late medieval hall house, with later C16 chimney and ceiling. 2 storeys and attic, irregular windows. High pitched tiled roof. Moulded wood eaves cornice. One gabled dormer. Tile hung 1st floor. Brick ground floor with stone plinth. Leased casement windows. Projecting 2-storey porch. Left extension formerly an outbuilding. Right extension, probably of C17, with random stone ground floor, tile hanging above. Sun assurance sign on eaves cornice. Inside mugh panelling: imported linenfold in left extension, plain Elizabethan in central room, Queen Anne period elsewhere. Much exposed timber including remains of screens passage; and carved crown post. Many assembly marks on timbers. Restored inglenook. Former jettied right end, with C16 window, vmsible inside C17 extension. Carved figure, possibly representing a thresher, on bay post in entrance hall. 5280 SEAL UNDERRIVER Garden Wall in front of Black Charles TQ 5552 26/1092 II GV 2. C17 or early C18 wall of galletted large random rubble masonry with red brick coping. (3) Not mentioned in The Buildings of England. (4)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> OS 1:10,560 1969 (OS Card Reference). SKE48146.
<3> DOE (HHR) Dist. of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent. Jan. 1975 278 (OS Card Reference). SKE40440.
<4> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37967.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #30850 Building, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:10,560 1969. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist. of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent. Jan. 1975 278. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 (J Newman). |
