Loddenden Manor

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STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7843 (East side)

5/130 Loddenden Manor 25.7.52 GV II*

House. Built, probably in several stages, during mid-to-late C16 and early C17. Restored circa 1912. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Principal room of 2 timber-framed bays to left of, and slightly overlapping, stack. Cross-wing of approximately 3 timber-framed bays to left end, projecting forwards slightly. Further bay to right of, and slightly overlapping, stack; possibly of a slightly different date, separately framed, apparently as a cross-wing, and less deep to rear. Formerly free-standing mid-to-late C16 three-bay timber- framed structure set some distance behind right end bay of main range, with slightly later timber-framed infilling between them inset from right gable end of main range. C17 stair turret in re-entrant angle. 2 storeys and attic on brick plinth. Close-studded. Left cross-wing jettied to front on moulded bressumer. Continuous jetty to rest of main range, with bressumer similarly moulded as far as stack, differently moulded to right end bay, and returning to right on moulded dragon post.Gabled eaves of left cross-wing jettied on moulded bressumer, and with lower ridge than main range. Roof of main range hipped down to wing with gablet, gabled down to lower ridge of right end bay (to right of stack), and gabled to right end. C16 rear structure with higher ridge than infill, and roof hipped to front and rear. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof to right of centre, and truncated projecting brick stack to left side of left wing. Irregular fenestration of 6 leaded windows; one 3-light casement to left wing, one 2-light casement to porch, one single light to right of porch, one 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window under jettied close-studded gable to first floor of principal room, one 3-light casement under stack, and one 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window with moulded cill to right end bay. 10- light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed window with frieze windows under first floor oriel and to right end bay on ground floor. 2-storey C17 timber-framed porch overlapping angle between main range and left wing; first floor jettied on 3 sides, eaves jettied to front. Moulded rectangular outer doorway with encircled chamfer stops. Moulded C16 or C17 door. Bell cupola to ridge of main range. Interior: exposed framing, including evidence for mullioned windows to both floors of C16 rear structure, and to infill. Moulded beams. Evidence for screens passage to left end of principal room. 4-centred-arched doorhead with leaf spandrels between principal and right end rooms. Plain-chamfered brick fireplace with chamfered bressumer to principal room and similar stone fireplace to right end room. Raised floor to infill section with solid-tread stairs to semi-basement with well. Late C17 staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Solid-tread stairs between first floor and attic. Broad floorboards. Clasped purlin roof with wind- braces and diminishing principal rafters. (H.S. Cowper, Some Timber- Framed Houses in the Kentish Weald, in Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. XXIX, 1911).

Listing NGR: TQ7867643368

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Archaeologia Cantiana in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 29, (1911)

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