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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 83 SW 81
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:DINGLEDEN HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1999 Dingleden is marked on the Ordnance Survey historic maps of c.1858-1940. The site is also marked as Bowles Farm on these maps. Thought to be medieval in origin based on a survey of the medieval houses of Kent. No further information was available due to a previously incomplete record entry.

Grid Reference:TQ 81667 31135
Map Sheet:TQ83SW
Parish:BENENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1085215: DINGLEDEN HOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BENENDEN TQ83SW RAMSDEN LANE (OFF) 1350-0/8/86 Dingleden House 09/06/52 II House, formerly farmhouse. C15 timberframed open hall-house altered in C16 and restored in C20. Front has exposed close-studding with plaster infill, the left side elevation is tile hung. Rear elevation has C20 brick extension. Steeply pitched C20 tiled roof with cruciform brick chimneystack. 2 storeys. 4 windows. Mainly mullioned windows with diamond-shaped leaded panes. The 1st floor of the end window bays originally oversailed on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets with curved braces, but the north bay has been underbuilt and the ground floor below the south overhang has been refaced in red brick. The centre portion has coved eaves and a bay on both floors containing 2 tiers of 7 lights with wooden mullions and transoms, each flanked by a tiny window, with a gable above oversailing on a curved bressumer and containing an attic window and pendant. Restored door flanked by durns.
Listing NGR: TQ8166731135 (1)

Description from record TQ 83 SW 35:
Dingleden is marked on the Ordnance Survey historic maps of c.1858-1940. The site is also marked as Bowles Farm on these maps. Thought to be medieval in origin based on a survey of the medieval houses of Kent. No further information was available due to a previously incomplete record entry.

Wealden house with a formerly open 2-bay hall and overshot passage. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040447 DINGLEDEN, 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.RCH01/048/01/051 Labelled sheet of drawings of Dingleden, Benenden, showing a sketch plan of the ground-floor and detail sections of a dais beam and cross-rail


<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.