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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 SE 148 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | HOOK'S HOLE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1499. 15th c
| Grid Reference: | TQ 87608 63897 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ86SE |
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| Parish: | BORDEN, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1069424: HOOK'S HOLE |
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Full description
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Description from record TQ 86 SE 35:
[TQ 8770 6385] Hook's Hole [NAT] (1) Wealden hall house, Hook's Hole, Grade II, Chestnut Street (south side). 15th century. (For full description see list.) (2) Hook's Hole is a black and white house on the wealden pattern, the upper parts of the wings projecting and the hipped roof carried across the centre on braces. Wide-spaced uprights and curved braces. (3)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 86 SE BORDEN CHESTNUT STREET (south side)
5/16 Hook's Hole 27 8 52 GV II*
Wealden hall house. C15. Timber framed and exposed with painted brick and plaster infill and plain tiled roof. Four framed bays of 2 storeys, with returned jetties to left and right supported on dragon posts. Coved eaves to central recessed hall, arch braced flying wall plate, hipped roof with gablets and stacks to rear left, centre, and projecting end right. Irregular fenestration of 3 wood casements to first floor, 2 to ground floor, with original plank and stud door in 4 centred arched and moulded surround and indeci- pherable inscription over. Interior: C17 inserted floor over hall, carved beam, crown post roof braced to collar from base of post. Listing NGR: TQ8760863898 (4)
<1> OS 1:10000 1979 (OS Card Reference). SKE48165.
<2> DOE(HHR) Swale Boro Kent Nov 1984 9 (OS Card Reference). SKE41195.
<3> Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent 1983 149 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37801.
<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 1979. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Swale Boro Kent Nov 1984 9. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent 1983 149 (J Newman). |
| <4>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #33250 Listed building, ] |
