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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 96 SE 1080
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:TUDOR COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599 This listed house on cellar Hill, Lynsted, was constructed between 1513 and 1533.


Grid Reference:TQ 5955 1622
Map Sheet:TQ51NE
Parish:LYNSTED WITH KINGSDOWN, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1513 AD to 2050 AD) + Sci.Date
  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1514 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1069336: TUDOR COTTAGE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 96 SE LYNSTED CELLAR HILL (east side)
3/39 Tudor Cottage (formerly listed as 2 cottages, 27.8.52 occupiers Hanford and Streatfield).
GV II
House, sometime 2 cottages. C16. Timber framed, part underbuilt with painted brick and plastered first floor, part exposed and close-studded with plaster infill, with thatched roof. Five framed bays. Two storeys, with continuous jetty to right on dragon posts and returned on right front. Hipped roof with central stacks. Four wood casements and 1 oriel to right on moulded projecting cill on first floor, and 3 wood casements and 1 oriel to right with 8 mullioned lights on ground floor. Central boarded door with four centred arched surround.
Listing NGR: TQ9555261706

Dendrochronology dating gave a date range of 1513-1517. (2)

Dendrochronology dating of the parlour addition gave a date range of 1518-1553. (3)

Timber framed house of two early 16th century phases, the first being a floored hall and jettied upper end of a smoke bay house and the second is the construction of a large parlour bay, jettied on all three external sides, on the site of the former lower end (4)

Historic England archive material (5)

Historic England archive material (5)


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

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 20, Pg. 42 (Website). SKE17391.

<3> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 19, Pg. 48 (Website). SKE17391.

<4> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<5> Historic England, Archive material associated with Tudor Cottage, Lynsted, Listed Building (Archive). SKE55822.

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. 20, Pg. 42.
<3>Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 19, Pg. 48.
<4>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
<5>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Tudor Cottage, Lynsted, Listed Building.