Huntingfield
HUNTINGFIELD, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1069233
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Huntingfield
- Statutory Address:
- HUNTINGFIELD, BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1069233
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Huntingfield
- Statutory Address 1:
- HUNTINGFIELD, BACK LANE
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:
- HUNTINGFIELD, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Eastling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 97147 55020
Details
TQ 95 NE EASTLING BACK LANE (north side)
4/3 Huntingfield
24.1.67 II
Manor house, now house. C16, C18 and early C19. Timber framed and structural red brick part clad with buff coloured mathematical tiles, with plain tiled roofs. Range of four framed bays with 2 C18 service wings added to rear, and early C19 wing added to east end, becoming the new entrance front. Two storeys and hipped roof with stacks to rear left and right. Regular fenestration of 5 glazing bar sashes on first floor and 4 on ground floor, all with gauged heads. Central door of 6 moulded and fielded panels in heavily moulded and panelled door surround with semi-circular fanlight. Right return: originally the main front, now side front, clad with buff mathematical tiles, with 6 glazing bar sashes on first floor, 5 on ground floor with half-glazed door. Interior: C16 range with heavy frame visible, and moulded beams. Clasped purlin roof with queen posts and wind braces. Refined early C19 interiors in entrance range, with marble fire surrounds and moulded corridor arches. Contemporary four flight open well staircase with ramped handrail and unmoulded balusters. Birth place and early home of Edward Hasted, F.R.S., F.S.A. (1732-1812), historian of Kent, who mentions surrounding foundations of flint and stone belonging to lost chapel and mill, and gives full manorial history (see Hasted, vol. VI, pp 430-431). The estate was in the late C18 linked with Belmont, where buff-coloured mathematical tiling is a major feature.
Listing NGR: TQ9714755020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176407
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1801), 430-431
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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