SUTTON BARON AND SUTTON BARON HALL

SUTTON BARON AND SUTTON BARON HALL, SUTTON BARON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1069392
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: SUTTON BARON AND SUTTON BARON HALL
Statutory Address:: SUTTON BARON AND SUTTON BARON HALL, SUTTON BARON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1069392
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: SUTTON BARON AND SUTTON BARON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: SUTTON BARON AND SUTTON BARON HALL, SUTTON BARON ROAD

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:: SUTTON BARON AND SUTTON BARON HALL, SUTTON BARON ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Swale (District Authority)
Parish:: Borden
National Grid Reference:: TQ 87937 61948

Details

TQ 86 SE BORDEN SUTTON BARON ROAD (north side)

5/47 Sutton Baron and Sutton 27.8.52 Baron Hall (formerly listed as Sutton Baron Farmhouse) GV II House, now 2 houses. C15 to C18. Timber framed, part exposed, part clad with plaster, and structural red brick with plain tiled roofs. Originally a Wealden hall house, with mid C17 wing added to rear for Robert Plot the elder (d. 1669), and early C18 red brick wing added to that. Road front: 2 storeys and hipped roof, the C18 wing left. separately hipped. Two projecting tile hung gables to right and stack to centre rear, Irregular fenestratiun of five windows, 2 glazing bar sashes to left and 3 wood casements right on first floor, 2 french windows and 2 wood casements on ground floor, with half-glazed door in 1 storey gabled porch centre right bearing plaque: P Left return front: restored Wealden house R W. with, exposed close- studded timber framing, of 4 bays with C17 red brick extension to right. Two storeys, with plinth to right, jettied to left and right, flying wall plate on arched braces over recessed central bays, hipped roof with gablets, stacks to centre rear arid end right. Irregular fenestration of 4 wood casements on first floor with blocked mullioned lights to right, and 2 wood case- ment, central brick and wood mullioned.segmental bay window, C20 mullioned window right, and segment-headed casement end right on ground floor. C20 plank door centre right. Interior: panelled interior to C18 wing, sone C17 panelling and late C17 staircase, and carved overmantel and wall paintings (covered awaiting restoration at time of inspection) in Wealden. Dr. Robert Plot (1640-96), Antiquary and first secretary to the Royal Society was born, lived and died in the house. (See B.O.E. Kent II 1983, 149; Igglesden, 24, 1930 p. 48H).

Listing NGR: TQ8793661949

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Legacy System number:: 176068
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Igglesden, C, Saunter through Kent with pen and pencil, (1930), 48H
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent, (1983), 149

Legal

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