Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899

Monument Types

• HALL HOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CLIFFE-AT-HOO CP CHURCH STREET TQ 77 NW 14/5 East side Nos. 170-174
GV II
Hall-house, embedded in cottage row and now restaurant. Early C16 with later C16, C17 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed and underbuilt in brick on ground- floor with weatherboarded first-floor. Irregular plain tiled roof, hipped to right with gablet and half-hipped to left. 2 storeys. Irregular 6 window first-floor and 7 window ground-floor, casements, the 4 to left on ground-floor arcaded shop windows. Doubled half-glazed doors in centre and boarded doors to left and right. Interior: substantial timber frame evident. Two large fireplaces with oak bressumers.
Listing NGR: TQ7357076493 (1)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe parish. The report states: "Other survivors from the village's earlier past include…Nos 170-174 Church Street, a timber-framed hall-house of early 16th century date, altered and extended in the later 16th, 17th and 19th centuries." (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31591.

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