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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 44 NE 63 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | BROCAS MANOR |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1066 to 1901 Hever Brocas : listed building
| Grid Reference: | TQ 4695 4509 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ44NE |
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| Parish: | HEVER, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1390 AD to 2050 AD)
- OPEN HALL HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1537 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEVER HEVER 1. 5280 Hever Road (North Side) Brocas Manor TQ 44 SE 49/520 II 2. Victorian front of 2 storeys, 3 windows, with half-octagonal ended left extension. High pitched tiled roof with rebuilt chimney. Tile hung 1st floor, red brick ground floor with stone dressings. C19 casements, 2 canted bays and gabled porch. This front conceals extensive mediaeval house of 3 adjoining halls, all with stout timbers, probably late C14, C15 and early C16. All have collar-purlin roofs and crown posts, 2 of them carved.
Listing NGR: TQ4695045090
Formerly TQ 44 NE 26
Dendrochronology dating of the open hall gave a date range of 1524-1557. (2)
House of two medieval phases, the earlier of which is probably a combined service-solar wing jettied at front possibly with a very early integral kitchen. The later phase is a formerly open hall. (3)
Historic England archive material (4)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 21, Pg. 41 (Website). SKE17391.
<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with Hever Brocas, Hever, Listed Building (Archive). SKE56474.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| <2> | Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 21, Pg. 41. |
| <3> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |
| <4> | Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Hever Brocas, Hever, Listed Building. |
