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Monument details

Summary

16th c and later Grade II* listed building. Timber-framed, two-storey manor house constructed in 1534, restored during the early 20th century.

Monument Types

• MANOR HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1534 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 75734088] Husheath Manor [NAT] (1) Husheath Manor, Grade II*, is a 16th century, timber framed and close studded building with plaster infilling on a base of red brick. It is of two storeys with attics and the first floor and the two gables all oversail. The east wall has been refaced with red brick on the ground floor and tile hung above. (2)(3) Hush Heath (formerly listed as Husheath Manor), an early 17th century house, restored, probably in the early 20th century. (4) Additional bibliography. (5)

Description from record TQ 74 SE 163:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST HUSHEATH HILL TQ 74 SE (East side)
3/147 Hush Heath Manor (formerly 25.7.52 listed as Husheath Manor)
GV II*
House. Early C17. Restored, probably in early C20. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Right return red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, tile-hung above. Plain tile roof. L-plan. Main range with principal room of one or two timber-framed bays to left of stack bay, with further room of one long timber-framed bay incorporating cross- passage, to left end. Bay to right of stack framed as cross-wing, returning to rear with one further stack bay and one timber-framed bay behind it. Apparently integral timber-framed lean-to to long left side of wing. 2 storeys attic and cellar on brick plinth. Close-studded. Continuous jetty, slightly lower across stack and to right end bay, solid-spandrel brackets to left and scrolled and carved brackets to right wing. Roof hipped to left, hip jettied on protruding wall-plate ends with solid-spandrel brackets. Eaves dormer to left of stack, jettied on ovolo-moulded bressumer on shaped brackets, and with moulded bargeboards and pendant. Broad front gable of right wing jettied on billet-moulded bressumer on carved & scrolled brackets, and with billet-moulded bargeboards and moulded pendant. Half-hipped roof to rear of wing, slightly jettied on protruding wall-plate ends, with half-hip jettied still further above. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to junction of main range and wing, and another towards centre of right return elevation. One 3-light mullioned window to left dormer. One 6-light mullioned and transomed window to wing gable. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded windows; one 2-light casement to left end bay; one rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on shaped brackets, with rendered ogee base and 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned frieze windows, under the jettied eaves dormer and one 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to stack bay. 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window on scrolled and carved brackets, with moulded head and cill, and with 2-light ovolo-moulded frieze windows, to right wing. Frieze windows of both oriel windows flanked by blocked or blind "windows" with lower, pegged, cills. Boarded doorway with 4-centred- arched head and hollow spandrels, to right end of left end bay. Boarded door under stack to right side of wing. Interior: exposed framing. Panelled room to left end of ground floor and to front of wing. Linenfold panelling to left and right ends of principal ground-floor room. Brick fireplaces with chamfered bressumers. Side purlin roof with vertical queen-struts to collars.
Listing NGR: TQ7573040835 (6)

<1> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.

<2> DOE (HHR) Maidstone Kent 1960 66 (OS Card Reference). SKE40598.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1969 523 (N Pevsner) (OS Card Reference). SKE37839.

<4> DOE (HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 25 March 1987 87 (OS Card Reference). SKE39944.

<5> Bldgs of Eng West Kent & the Weald 1980 546 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38038.

<6> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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