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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1632. C15th hall house at left masked by 16th or early 17th century extensions at front and right. Formerly divided into 4 dwellings.

Monument Types

• HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1400 AD to 1632 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 CHIDDINGSTONE HOATH CORNER Skinners House Cottages TQ 44 SE 53/279 10.9.54.
II
2. House of 2 periods. C15 hall house at left masked by C16 or early Cl7 extensions at front and right. Formerly divided into 4 dwellings, now empty and awaiting reconversion to single residence. To left - Gable ended projection with diamond paned windows and gable end oversailing and supported on carved wooden brackets and moulded crosspiece. 2 storeys and small gable end attic window. In centre smaller gable ended projection forming porch. 1st floor was jettied but ground floor now built out. To right - Ridge tile roof with stack and small ½ dormer. 2 storeys. Plain cottage casements. West elevation - Ridge tile roof with one end hipped. Partly tile hung and with weatherboarded addition to rear. Random stone plinth. Inside large inglenooks of dressed stone with carved beams. Dais panelling with moulded beam above and much other exposed timber.
Listing NGR: TQ4972043093

Description from record TQ 44 SE 19 :
5280 CHIDDINGSTONE HOATH CORNER Skinners House Cottages TQ 44 SE 53/279 10.9.54 II 2. House of 2 periods. C15 hall house at left masked by C16 or early C17 extensions at front and right. Formerly divided into 4 dwellings, now empty and awaiting reconversion to single residence. To left - Gable ended projection with diamond paned windows and gable end oversaili and supported on carved wooden brackets and moulded crosspiece. 2 storeys and small gable end attic window. In centre smaller gable ended projection forming porch. 1st floor was jettied but ground floor now built out. To right - Ridge tile roof with stack and small 1/2 dormer. 2 storeys. Plain cottage casememts. West elevation - Ridge tile roof with one end hipped. Partly tile hung and with weatherboarded addition to rear. Random stone plinth. Inside large inglenook of dressed stone with carved beams. Dais panelling with moulded beam above and much other exposed timber. (1) TQ 49674311. Skinners House was inspected during recent modernization. The house consists of a medieval hall-range with a late Elizabethan or early Jacobean cross-wing and contemporary porch at the former lower end. The upper bay of the medieval hall-range had been completely rebuilt at the time of the visit though apparentely, judging by some recent architect's 'before and after' drawings, to the same size as the original house. The most noteworthy feature of the building is that the hall is single-aisled and associated with a moulded dias beam of apparently late date. (Full architectural account). (2) Not mentioned in The Buildings of England. (3-4)

<1> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks RD Kent 1975 74 (OS Card Reference). SKE41028.

<2> Arch Cant 91 1975 179-182 (P J Gray) (OS Card Reference). SKE36032.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37967.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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