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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 83 SW 102
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:LITTLE STANDEN

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1832 Little Standen was identifed as medieval during a survey of the medieval houses of Kent. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey historic maps of c.1858-1940. No further information was available due to a previously incomplete record entry.


Grid Reference:TQ 80856 30843
Map Sheet:TQ83SW
Parish:BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1450 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1203985: LITTLE STANDEN

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BENENDEN TQ82SW STANDEN STREET 1350-0/3/100 (East side) 20/06/67 Little Standen (Formerly Listed as: STANDEN STREET (East side) Standen Street Cottages) II House, at one time 3 cottages. C16 or earlier timber-framed building refaced in early C19. Ground floor red brick with grey headers on stone plinth, 1st floor weatherboarded. Steeply pitched tiled roof with late C16 brick chimneystack. 2 storeys; 4 windows. C20 casements and C20 weatherporch.
Listing NGR: TQ8085630843 (1)

Description from record TQ 83 SW 34:
Little Standen was identifed as medieval during a survey of the medieval houses of Kent. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey historic maps of c.1858-1940. No further information was available due to a previously incomplete record entry.

Timber framed house with a surviving formerly open 2-bay hall and upper end bay. The lower end including a lower end partition was rebuilt in the 17th century. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040453 LITTLE STANDEN, BENENDEN 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. RCH01/048/01/057 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Little Standen, Benenden


<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.