Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1799. There has been a park here since at least 1346.

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1799 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 NE STELLING MINNIS -
2/175 Fryarne Park Farm
II
Farmhouse, now house. C18, on an earlier site. Painted brick. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Gabled roof. Projecting red and grey brick stack with tumbled shoulders to left gable end. Red and grey brick ridge stack to right end. Regular 3-window front of slightly recessed casements; two three-light and central two-light. Cambered heads to ground-floor windows. Central door of four fielded panels with two top lights and segmental head. Later two-storey parallel rear range; painted brick with tile-hung gables, painted coursed flint with brick quoins to rear elevation, gabled plain tile roof, and central stack. Parallel single-storey outbuilding to rear, of coursed painted flint with brick dressings, with gabled plain tile roof and rear red brick stack, linked to house by single-storey painted flint section. Interior not inspected. Marked on OS map as Fryarne Park.
Listing NGR: TR1562046936 (1)

There has been a park here since at least 1346 as mentioned in Hasted. The ownership of the park has always been uncertain being at times in the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Crown. Size and boundaries unknown (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Susan Pittman, 2011, Elizabethan and Jacobean Deer Parks in Kent (Monograph). SKE32115.

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