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Monument details

HER Number:TR 05 NW 110
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:HALKE COTTAGES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1499


Grid Reference:TR 0141 5781
Map Sheet:TR05NW
Parish:SHELDWICH, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1370 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1069920: HALKE COTTAGES

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 NW SHELDWICH ASHFORD ROAD (east side) North Street
1/70 Nos.1&2 Halke Cottages
II
House, now 2 cottages. C15. Timber framed and part exposed with painted brick infill, part weatherboarded, right return clad with painted brick. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with separately roofed parlour and service wings. Two storeyed wings left and right to central range of one storey and attic, end wings originally jettied, now underbuilt. Hipped roofs, returned on wings with gablets. One gabled dormer. Stack cluster to centre left, and projecting and offset stack at end right. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements. Rib and stud door to left, boarded door to right. Rear: the original entrance front, obscured by outshots, but with jetty and dragon posts revealed. Interior: the wing to right with ogee bracing to hall range and 2 four centred arched doorways to hall range. Crown post roofs. House described as 'early' and 'rare' (See B.0:E. Kent II, 1983, 460).
Listing NGR: TR0141757819
Formerly TR 05 NW 33 (1)

House of three medieval phases. The earliest is a low open 2-bay hall of circa 1400. The next is the addition of a lower end wing of the 3rd quarter of the 15th century end jettied at the front and side. The last is an upper end wing of circa 1500 jettied at the side and rear. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040277 HALKE COTTAGES, SHELDWICH File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.RCH01/048/01/585 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Halke Cottages, Sheldwich


<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.