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Monument details

HER Number:TR 03 NE 77
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:STONE HILL COTTAGE AND OLD FORGE COTTAGE

Summary

Wealden house with a formerly open 2-bay hall. The front of the hall was rebuilt with an oriel window dated 1657.


Grid Reference:TR 09144 38979
Map Sheet:TR03NE
Parish:SELLINDGE, SHEPWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (HOUSE, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
  • SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 1989 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1344222: STONE HILL COTTAGE AND OLD FORGE COTTAGE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 03 NE SELLINDGE SOUTHENAY LANE (South-East Side)
2/90 Stone Hill Cottage and Old Forge 29.12.66 Cottage
II
House, now house row. C15 or early C16 with alterations of 1657. Restored 1980s. Timber framed with painted brick infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, of 2 roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and attic on stone plinth. Right and left end bays jettied to front. Broadly-spaced close-studding to first floor of each end bay, otherwise thin broadly-spaced studding. Rectangular panels to left hall bay. Hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of right hall bay. Flying wall-plate removed from left hall bay and gable inserted above level of eaves, jettied, on shaped brackets, with carved bargeboards, moulded pendant, 3-light casement, and date 1657. Borne on rectangular 2-storey C17 timber- framed bay window, formerly with deep central window and flanking frieze windows to each floor, now with 16-pane sash to each floor. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows (including first floor of bay); one 3-light casement to each end bay and one single-light to right hall bay. Panelled door to Stone Hill Cottage in painted brick lean-to to left, and to Old Forge Cottage to centre of right end bay. Rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam. Left inglenook has bressumer with integral moulded woodenmantelDiece. Upper section of octagonal C17 newel post with finial.
Listing NGR: TR0914938987

Description from record TR 03 NE 44:
Listed building : no additional information available


<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>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.