Headcorn Manor
HEADCORN MANOR, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060835
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Headcorn Manor
- Statutory Address:
- HEADCORN MANOR, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060835
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Headcorn Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEADCORN MANOR, CHURCH WALK
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HEADCORN MANOR, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Headcorn
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83129 44229
Details
HEADCORN CHURCH WALK TQ 8344 (South side) 10/45 Headcorn Manor [Formerly listed as the Old 20.10.52 Vicarage)
GV II*
Parsonage, now house. Circa 1516, restored in C20. Timber framed with plaster infilling and plain tile roof. Wealden with 2 roughly equal-length hall bays and storeyed bay to each end. 2 storeys and attic. Right and left end bays jettied to front and to gable ends. Right end bay also jettied to rear, left end bay projects: either unjettied or underbuilt. Moulded dragon posts to front, plain to rear to right. Every elevation close-studded. Solid bracket under each end of central tie-beam. Solid- spandrel brackets to front and rear flying wall-plates. Steeply pitched hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of hall. Gabled dormer to left hip. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 4-light wooden mullioned canted oriel window to each end bay with shaped bracket under and cinquefoil-headed lights. 2-storey canted bay with close-studded sides and solid bracket to base, to right end of left hall bay with 4-light wooden mullioned window to each floor, with cinquefoil-headed lights and daggers. 2-light wooden mullioned window to right hall bay, with cinquefoil-headed lights and trefoils. Similar 2-storey canted bay and 2-light window to rear elevation of hall. 2-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullioned window to rear of left hall bay and diamond mullioned window to rear of right end room. Boarded door to right end of hall with moulded 4-centred arched architrave with carved roses to spandrels and moulded brattished bressumer over. Similar but less elaborate door opposite to rear. Interior: Moulded end- of-hall beams, that to left end brattished. Short moulded spears beside front and rear doors, possibly removed from left end of hall. Three 4- centred arched service doors to right end of hall, that to centre with roses to spandrels, leading to stairs. Moulded central truss posts, moulded arch-braced tie-beam of heavy scantling, and moulded crown post. Ashlar pieces. Ogee end-of-hall braces to first floor and to end-of-hall crown posts. Close-studded infilling below inner wall-plate. Cl7 newel staircase in front of stack. Moulded beams to inserted hall floor. Moulded 4-centred arched brick fireplace to first floor left end bay. [J, Newman, West Kent and the Weald, 1980).
Listing NGR: TQ8313044229
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174272
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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