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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1599. 15th c and later (formerly Cranbrook Manor)

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TQ 86 SE 107:
Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TQ 86 SE 3:
[TQ 85756452] Cranbrook [NAT] Newington Manor [NAT] (1-2) The oldest part of Newington Manor, formerly known as Cranbrook, is a mid-15th c hall running from East to west. It has long been divided up and formerly extended further west than it does now. The north front, with its two gables, is not much later and the external brick chimney-breast on the eastern side is Tudor. The house was remodelled c.1700 or a little earlier. (3) Newington Manor is as described by Oswald. GP AO/63/122/2. (4) Newington Manor (formerly listed under Bull Lane). Manor house. 15th c and 16th c. Timber framed, close-studded and exposed with painted herring-bone brick nogging, and plain tiled roofs. (For full descriptive text, see list). (5) Newington Manor, Two-thirds of a large timber-framed, 16th c house. The left gable marks the solar wing, the lower gable belongs to the porch. The hall lay to the right and has been refaced recently. (6)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 86 SE NEWINGTON CALLAWAYS LANE (south side)
5/12 Newington Manor (formerly listed under 27.8.52 Bull Lane)
II*
Manor house. C15 and C16. Timber framed, close-studded and exposed with painted herring-bone brick nogging, and plain tiled roofs. Originally hall with later chamber and service blocks at either end and porch, the service wing is demolished. Two storeys on flint and brick plinth, with 2 projecting gables to left, the larger the chamber wing, the smaller the porch, both jettied at first floor on heavy dragon posts with pierced and cusped bargeboarded gables with pendants and finials. Projecting left end stack and stack to end right. Irregular fenestration of one 4-light segmental oriel in each gable, with mullioned wood segmental bay window on ground floor to left. Right return of porch with 2 light oriel on carved brackets and shallow projecting 2 storey bay window in hall blocked to right, and part blocked light at angle with porch. Plank and stud door in porch with side lights, under 4-centred arched opening with fernleaf spandrels. Left return front continuously jettied. Interior: carved mantelpieces, fernleaf spandrels and roses. Staircase of 2 half-flights staggered with winders and turned balusters (See BOE Kent II, 1983, 402).
Listing NGR: TQ8576264525 (7)

<1> OS 6" 1908 (OS Card Reference). SKE48323.

<2> OS 6" Prov Edn (OS Card Reference). SKE48392.

<3> Country Life 18-JUL-36 36-40 photos (AS Oswald) (OS Card Reference). SKE39407.

<4> F1 CFW 03-JUL-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE42402.

<5> DOE(HHR) Swale Boro Kent 27-NOV-84 4 (OS Card Reference). SKE41186.

<6> Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent 1983 402-3 (J Newman, Ed N Pevsner) (OS Card Reference). SKE37814.

<7> Field report for monument TQ 86 SE 3 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE4589.

<7> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<8> N. FRONT OF NEWINGTON MANOR HOUSE (Photograph). SKE2565.

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