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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 86 SE 181 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | HEART'S DELIGHT HOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899
Grid Reference: | TQ 8857 6211 |
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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 - 1420 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1343886: HEART'S DELIGHT HOUSE |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 86 SE BORDEN HEART'S DELIGHT ROAD (north side)
5/52 Heart's Delight House (formerly listed as 27.8.52 Heart's Delight Farm Cottages) with wall adjoining.
II
House. C16 clad C17 and C19. Timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hung with plain tile roof. Two storeys and hipped roof with stacks projecting at end left, and to rear centre left and rear right. Separately hipped extension to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 wood casements to each floor, and board door to centre left. Right return front with exposed close studded framing. A C16 red brick wall encloses a courtyard before the house - the wall 6 feet high, extends 10 yards from the front of the house and runs a length of 10 yards before returning. In the west wall is a plank and stud door in, brick arch with flat head, discontinuous cornice and coping.
Listing NGR: TQ8857362113 (1)
Description from record TQ 86 SE 113:
Listed building : no additional information available
House of two medieval phases the earlier of which consists of a 2-bay cross wing and the later of a formerly open 2-bay hall and upper end which was originally jettied at the end. (2)
Historic England archive material: BF040272 HEARTS DELIGHT HOUSE, BORDEN 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 RCH01/048/01/079 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Heart's Delight House, Borden
<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. |