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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 83 SW 77
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:OLD STANDEN

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1999 Late 15th century with later alterations


Grid Reference:TQ 81005 30517
Map Sheet:TQ83SW
Parish:BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1336746: OLD STANDEN

Full description

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Description from record TQ 83 SW 21 :
(TQ81013052) Old Standen. (1) House. Late 15th century open hall-house with cross wing to right hand side, late 16th century chimney and 18th century extension and refronting to left hand side with 20th century gable and fenestration. Listed Grade II*. [Full architectural description] (2) Standen, a compact front, two storeyed and jettied across the whole of it. (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BENENDEN TQ83SW STANDEN STREET 1350-0/3/102 (East side) 09/06/52 Old Standen II* House. Late C15 open hall-house with crosswing to right hand side, late C16 chimney and C18 extension and refronting to left hand side with C20 gable and fenestration. Timber-framed building with only the brackets exposed to the front elevation, but exposed close-studding to rear and jettied overhang to cross wing. Ground floor to front red brick in Flemish bond, 1st floor plastered but cross wing to right faced in brick to ground floor and weatherboarded above and left side painted brick to ground floor and tile hung above. Steeply pitched old tiled roof with brick chimneystack. 2 storeys and attics 4 windows. C20 casements. C20 dormer with gabled projection. C20 gabled porch. Interior has roll moulded and crenellated dais beam and open fireplaces with wooden bressumer. 2 3-centred arched doorways to cross wing with floriate carved spandrels, 1st floor has jowled posts and elaborate crown posts with most unusual rose carving to 4 head braces and octagonal crownpost to cross wing. Rear wing has early C17 bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ8100530517 (4)

Partially surviving house with a large cross wing of a formerly open 2-bay hall of the same date. The first floor is jettied to the rear and probably originally to the front. The upper end was demolished and replaced by a modern building. (5)

Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/03/074 Sheet of simplified floor plans of five Kent houses This is figure seventy in the book, showing plans a to e of The Barracks, East Malling; Harts Farmhouse, Molash; Stoneacre, Otham; Court Lodge Farmhouse, Southfleet and Old Standen, Benenden. The item comprises five plans stuck to a card mounting board.


<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.

<2> DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (54) (OS Card Reference). SKE40663.

<3> Newman, J 1980. The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (170) (OS Card Reference). SKE47559.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<5> 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>OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Tunbridge Wells 5 July 1993 (54).
<3>OS Card Reference: Newman, J 1980. The Buildings of England, West Kent and The Weald: Penguin (170).
<4>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #38521 Listed building, ]
<5>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.