Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1799

A regular courtyard farmstead with buildings to three sides of the yard incorporating a L-plan element.

Monument Types

• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1799 AD)
• TIMBER FRAMED HOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1800 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CLIFFE-AT-HOO CP POND STREET TQ 77 NW 14/10 West side 21.11.66 Court Sole GV II
House. C16 with C18 addition. Timber-framed to east and clad in brick. Tiled roof with end stacks. 2 storeys. Three window front, glazing bar sashes on first floor with 3 bays on ground floor. Entrance to right with panelled door; transom light and flat hood over. Parallel C18 block to rear giving double depth plan. Interior: exposed timbers show east end to have been jettied with original window and diagonal mullions.
Listing NGR: TQ7360876711

Description from record MKE83417:
Type: Regular courtyardL with working agricultural buildings on three sides and with additional detached elements to the main plan
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached side on to yard
Position: Located within a village
Survivial: Altered - partial loss of original form (less than 50%)
(1-2)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe Parish. The report states:
"The principal manorial centre of the parish seems to have been at Courtsole, a site adjacent to St Helen's Church, and and still occupied by Court Sole Farm. This location was well sited to access marshland pasture to the north, as well as 36 acres of meadow and an amount of woodland probably in the vicinity of Cliffe Woods to the south….Courtsole Farm has a brick-clad timber-framed farmhouse from the 16th century, formerly jettied, with a parallel 18th century block to the rear giving double depth plan". (3)

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

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE18076.

<3> 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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