HUSH HEATH MANOR

HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1045800
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:: HUSH HEATH MANOR
Statutory Address:: HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1045800
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: HUSH HEATH MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH HILL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Staplehurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 75730 40835

Details

STAPLEHURST HUSHEATH HILL TQ 74 SE (East side)

3/147 Hush Heath Manor (formerly 25.7.52 listed as Husheath Manor)

GV II*

House. Early C17. Restored, probably in early C20. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Right return red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, tile-hung above. Plain tile roof. L-plan. Main range with principal room of one or two timber-framed bays to left of stack bay, with further room of one long timber-framed bay incorporating cross- passage, to left end. Bay to right of stack framed as cross-wing, returning to rear with one further stack bay and one timber-framed bay behind it. Apparently integral timber-framed lean-to to long left side of wing. 2 storeys attic and cellar on brick plinth. Close-studded. Continuous jetty, slightly lower across stack and to right end bay, solid-spandrel brackets to left and scrolled and carved brackets to right wing. Roof hipped to left, hip jettied on protruding wall-plate ends with solid-spandrel brackets. Eaves dormer to left of stack, jettied on ovolo-moulded bressumer on shaped brackets, and with moulded bargeboards and pendant. Broad front gable of right wing jettied on billet-moulded bressumer on carved & scrolled brackets, and with billet-moulded bargeboards and moulded pendant. Half-hipped roof to rear of wing, slightly jettied on protruding wall-plate ends, with half-hip jettied still further above. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to junction of main range and wing, and another towards centre of right return elevation. One 3-light mullioned window to left dormer. One 6-light mullioned and transomed window to wing gable. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded windows; one 2-light casement to left end bay; one rectangular 10-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on shaped brackets, with rendered ogee base and 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned frieze windows, under the jettied eaves dormer and one 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to stack bay. 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed oriel window on scrolled and carved brackets, with moulded head and cill, and with 2-light ovolo-moulded frieze windows, to right wing. Frieze windows of both oriel windows flanked by blocked or blind "windows" with lower, pegged, cills. Boarded doorway with 4-centred- arched head and hollow spandrels, to right end of left end bay. Boarded door under stack to right side of wing. Interior: exposed framing. Panelled room to left end of ground floor and to front of wing. Linenfold panelling to left and right ends of principal ground-floor room. Brick fireplaces with chamfered bressumers. Side purlin roof with vertical queen-struts to collars.

Listing NGR: TQ7573040835

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 174613
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 24 Kent,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.