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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1699.

Monument Types

• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1467 AD to 1699 AD)
• HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD to 2050 AD)

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEADCORN MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 84 NW (West Side) Hawkenbury
Moatenden Priory 5/60 (formerly listed as Moatenden) 26.4.68
GV II
Farmhouse, possibly incorporating fragment of house of Trinitarian Friars at left end. Now house. Late C15 or first half of C16, with C17 and later alterations. Ground floor of left section red brick with grey brick diaper pattern and irregular stone quoins to left corner; of central section red and grey brick in Flemish bond, and of right end bay C19 banded red and grey brick in English bond. First floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Plinth of C15 or C16 stone to left section; later ashlarged stone, and banded red and grey brick to central section; and irregular stone blocks to right end. Hipped roof, with gablet to right. Filleted multiple brick stack in rear slope of roof towards right. Irregular fenestration of five 9-pane sashes. Left section has one 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion ground-floor window with round-headed lights, moulded jambs and squared hoodmould to left of door and similar single-light window to right of door. 2 similar rear windows aligned with those to front. Hollow-chamfered stone doorway with rounded, almost 4-centred arched head and hoodmould to right end of left end bay. Panelled door with C19 open timber porch beneath stack. Rear elevation has 3 gables, 2 jettied on shaped brackets. Interior: exposed framing. Stone doorway with 4-centred arched head and another stone opening adjacent to it in right wall of left end bay. Plain crown-post to right end of same bay. Moated site. House of Trinitarian Friars founded circa 1235, and dissolved 1536.
Listing NGR: TQ8188946407

A survey of the building was carried out by Canterbury Archaeological Trust in 2012. The northernmost bays are the earliest with later extensions in the 16th or 17th centuries to the south. The ground floor rooms have a boarded oak ceiling. (1)

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2012, Moatenden Priory, Headcorn, Kent: An historic building appraisal (Unpublished document). SKE18141.

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