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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 05 NW 70 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | COLKINS |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1729 to 1999. Colkins is a plain, red brick house dated 1729, situated one mile north west of Boughton under Blean.
| Grid Reference: | TR 03360 59256 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR05NW |
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| Parish: | BOUGHTON UNDER BLEAN, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1729 AD to 2050 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II*) 1069131: COLKINS |
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Full description
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Description from record TR 05 NW 18:
[TR03355925] Colkins [NAT] (1) Colkins. House. Dated 1729 and extended early c19 and c20. (2) Colkins, Grade II . A very plain red-brick house three bays wide and five deep built before 1757. (3)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 NW BOUGHTON CLOCKHOUSE
4/63 Colkins 27.8.52 GV II*
House. Dated 1729 and extended early C19 and C20. For Richard Stacey, Master Builder of the King's Yard at Deptford. Red brick, with grey headers on left return. Plain tiled roof. Three storeys and basement on plinth, with projecting eaves and hipped roof with stacks to rear left and rear right. Regular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes on first and second floors and 2 on ground floor, all with segmental heads. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels with traceried rectangular fanlight, pilaster surround and flat hood on consoles. Basement opening to left and right. Recessed 2 storey hipped wing to right, with segmental headed windows and stacks at end rights fronted by single storey C20 flat roofed extension. Left return: in grey headers with red brick dressings. Three storeys with 5 window bays, irregularly blank or with glazing bar sashes, and stone clock face set centrally over top storey. Interior: cellar stair with turned balusters. Main stairs with dog leg, 1 flight on ground floor, and 2 flights to front-and rear of house on first and second floors. Turned balusters and ramped and mounted handrails on open strings with brackets. Ramped dado panelling to staircase: some wainscotting. Re-set date plaque now on rear wall with inscription: Rd. Stacey Sr. Wm. Stacey Ir. o B't/Ann. 1729
Listing NGR: TR0336059256 (4)
Archaeology South - East, 1997, Barn at Colkins, Boughton-under-Blean, Nr Faversham, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE54661.
<1> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.
<2> DOE (HHR) Swale Boro Kent May 1986 21 (OS Card Reference). SKE40626.
<3> Bldgs of Eng (ed.N.Pevsner) NE & E Kent 1983 152 (J.Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37700.
<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Archaeology South - East. 1997. Barn at Colkins, Boughton-under-Blean, Nr Faversham, Kent. |
| <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 1972. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Swale Boro Kent May 1986 21. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng (ed.N.Pevsner) NE & E Kent 1983 152 (J.Newman). |
| <4>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #32940 Listed building, ] |
