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Monument details

HER Number:TR 14 NW 8
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Handville Green 14th c and later, Anvil Green

Summary

Handville Green 14th c and later, GII* House Main construction periods 1280 to 1799


Grid Reference:TR 10898 49622
Map Sheet:TR14NW
Parish:WALTHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1280 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1085517: HANDVILLE GREEN

Full description

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[TR 10894961] Handville Green [NAT] (1) Handville Green, Anvil Green, Waltham. Grade II*. Part of the house dates from circa 1300 and consisted of an open hall with service wing and solar above. A wing was added in 1537 and there have been more recent alterations. (2)

Description from record TR 14 NW 23:
GII* House

Description from record TR 14 NW 84:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5273 WALTHAM ANVIL GREEN
Handville Green TR 14 NW 16/651
II*
2. Part of the house dates from circa 1300 and consisted of an open hall with service wing and solar above. A wing was added in 1537 and there have been more recent alterations. Timber-framed building with some C16 herringbone pattern brick nogging to the south-west and overhang but mostly refaced with red brick and flints in C18. Hipped tiled roof with C16 chimneystack. Two storeys. Four casements. Modern door. L wing added behind in flints and brick. The interior contains 2 inglenook fireplaces of 1537, the entrances for pantry and buttery and roof of circa 1300 mainly intact, of tie beams and collar construction. Graded for interior features.
Listing NGR: TR1090849592 (3)

End jetty house with formerly open 2-bay hall. Only the lower end originally had a jetty. There is a 17th century extension (4)

Historic England archive material: BF040071 HANDVILLE GREEN, WALTHAM 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. RCH01/048/01/708 Labelled sketch plan of Handville Green, Anvil Green


<1> OS 1:2500 1973 (OS Card Reference). SKE48215.

<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of city of Canterbury Kent March 1980 221 (OS Card Reference). SKE40225.

<3> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<4> 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 1973.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of city of Canterbury Kent March 1980 221.
<3>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #42417 Listed building, ]
<4>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.