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Monument details

HER Number:TR 13 NW 125
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:LEES COTTAGES

Summary

The earliest phase of this medieval house comprises the end bay of a low end jetty house with one smoke blackened roof truss over former open hall. The rest of the house is late 16th or 17th century.


Grid Reference:TR 10478 38345
Map Sheet:TR13NW
Parish:SELLINDGE, SHEPWAY, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1450 AD to 1632 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1367112: LEES COTTAGES

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 13 NW SELLINDGE DOWNS WAY (North end)
3/79 Nos. 1 and 2 Lees Cottages
II
House, now house row. Early C16 or earlier, with later C16 or early C17 alterations. Timber framed, pebbledashed, with plain tile roof. 1½ storeys. Exposed painted post to left of stack. Roof half-hipped to left with gablet, hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of one small 2-light casement over door and one 2-storey rectangular bay to right rising above eaves with hipped roof and one 3-light metal casement to each floor. Boarded door with rectangular leaded light under canopy beneath stack. Similar door to rear of left gable end, in rear lean-to. Low lean-to to right end of front elevation. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Clasped purlin roof to left end bay, common rafters with lower lapped collars towards stack.
Listing NGR: TR1047838345

Description from record TR 13 NW 41:
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.