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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1516 to 1999 16th century parsonage now house.

Monument Types

• MANOR HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1516 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TQ 84 SW 8 :
[TQ 83124423] Headcorn Manor a spectacular restored Wealden house, built after 1516 as the parsonage. (1) [TQ 83124423] Headcorn Manor [NAT] (2) Headcorn Manor. Grade II* (formerly listed as the Old Vicarage), Church Walk. Parsonage, now a house. Circa 1516, restored in the 20th century, Wealdon house. (3)(4) Additional bibliography. (5)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HEADCORN CHURCH WALK TQ 8344 (South side) 10/45 Headcorn Manor [Formerly listed as the Old 20.10.52 Vicarage)
GV II*
Parsonage, now house. Circa 1516, restored in C20. Timber framed with plaster infilling and plain tile roof. Wealden with 2 roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed bay to each end. 2 storeys and attic. Right and left end bays jettied to front and to gable ends. Right end bay also jettied to rear, left end bay projects: either unjettied or underbuilt. Moulded dragon posts to front, plain to rear to right. Every elevation close-studded. Solid bracket under each end of central tie-beam. Solid- spandrel brackets to front and rear flying wall-plates. Steeply pitched hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of hall. Gabled dormer to left hip. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 4-light wooden mullioned canted oriel window to each end bay with shaped bracket under and cinquefoil-headed lights. 2-storey canted bay with close-studded sides and solid bracket to base, to right end of left hall bay with 4-light wooden mullioned window to each floor, with cinquefoil-headed lights and daggers. 2-light wooden mullioned window to right hall bay, with cinquefoil-headed lights and trefoils. Similar 2-storey canted bay and 2-light window to rear elevation of hall. 2-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned window to rear of left hall bay and diamond mullioned window to rear of right end room. Boarded door to right end of hall with moulded 4-centred arched architrave with carved roses to spandrels and moulded brattished bressumer over. Similar but less elaborate door opposite to rear. Interior: Moulded end- of-hall beams, that to left end brattished. Short moulded spears beside front and rear doors, possibly removed from left end of hall. Three 4- centred arched service doors to right end of hall, that to centre with roses to spandrels, leading to stairs. Moulded central truss posts, moulded arch-braced tie-beam of heavy scantling, and moulded crown post. Ashlar pieces. Ogee end-of-hall braces to first floor and to end-of-hall crown posts. Close-studded infilling below inner wall-plate. Cl7 newel staircase in front of stack. Moulded beams to inserted hall floor. Moulded 4-centred arched brick fireplace to first floor left end bay. [J, Newman, West Kent and the Weald, 1980). Listing NGR: TQ8313044229 (6)

<1> Bldgs Kent 1969 308 (Ed N Pevsner) (OS Card Reference). SKE37662.

<2> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.

<3> DOE(HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 21 November 1986 24 (OS Card Reference). SKE40868.

<4> Bldgs of Eng-West Kent and the Weald 1980 321 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38169.

<5> Arch Cant 29 1911 201-205 (H S Cowper) (OS Card Reference). SKE34936.

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

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