Marston Hall and Outhouses With Donkey Wheel

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TR 34 NW LANGDON MARTIN

2/32 Marston Hall and outhouses with 22.8.66 Donkey Wheel

GV II

House and outbuildings. Late C16, rebuilt and extended mid C18 and mid C19. Red brick, coursed flint and timber framed, the main elevation rendered and tile hung. Plain tiled roofs, with slate roofed extension. Three storeys, the upper 2 tile hung with parapet to hipped roof and stacks to rear left and rear right. Regular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes on second floor, 2 tripartite and central single glazing bar sash on first floor, and 2 tripartite glazing bar sashes on ground floor. Central door of 6 panels with semi-circular fanlight in rendered surround. Projecting C19 room to right with 2 glazing bar sashes on each face and basement openings. Two storey wing to right, red brick in English bond on flint and brick plinth, with plat band raised in places, and half hipped roof with large stack to left. Blocked door and window, both segmentally headed and moulded brick surround on right return. Rear elevation of flint with moulded brick weathering to plinth and some dressed stone blocks. L shaped 1 storey outhouses to rear, the range adjoining the house C18, but with brewhouse c.1700 of irregular bond brickwork on flint plinth. C18 range at right angles built on top of pre-existing boundary wall, with 4 boarded doors to various rooms. Interior: chamfered and stopped stone doorway and chalk lined cellars (extended by C18 barrel vaulted cellar) and probably the lower 2 storey wing service from c.1599 house. Simple late C18 plaster cornice and friezes and simple dogleg stair with unturned balusters with some contemporary doors and fittings, with neoclassical fireplace and elliptical side arches in dining room. Mantel in study made of moulded C16 beam incorporating datestone found in cellar; IIM 1559: (John and Isabella Marsh). The outhouses were utilised largely for brewing and baking purposes, and much of the original layout and features survive, including the coalhouse or wood shed adjacent to the main oven, with domed bread oven,storage space around the stack for drying the kindling material, iron meat racks and 2 coppers, one of 40 gallons, one of 90 gallons and stone salting sink. Leaden hand pumps drew water from underground rain- fed tank. Lead pipes also lead direct from brewhouse to cellars, where the brew originally was fermented, casked and stored. Re-used stop chamfered tie beam, and moulded dias beam now used as wall plate. In adjacent building is the Donkey Wheel, mid C18, a fine structure in full working order, with treadwheel, the cross-braces reinforced with iron straps and chamfered and moulded, with winding drum over now capped 260 feet deep well. Originally carrying 80 gallon bucket, the water was dropped into a 4 foot square floor tank, and pumped thence either to the brewhouse, or direct to cisterns in the attic of the main house to provide running water. Contemporary doors and fittings; the wheel supporting structure also provides one wall structure of the outbuilding. C18 outhouse range includes original stores and dairy. Originally a grange of Langdon Abbey, the house was purchased by the tenants on dissolution (the Marsh family) John Marsh rebuilt about 1599, and James Jekens pulled down and rebuilt the house ("of stone and brick of no great antiquity") c.1750's. (See Hasted IX 554).

Listing NGR: TR3388446998

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Sources

Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1797), 554

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