Tudor House
TUDOR HOUSE, CHISLET FORSTAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1084381
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor House
- Statutory Address:
- TUDOR HOUSE, CHISLET FORSTAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1084381
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Feb-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUDOR HOUSE, CHISLET FORSTAL
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:
- TUDOR HOUSE, CHISLET FORSTAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Canterbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chislet
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 21659 64039
Details
In the entry for CHISLET HARLEY LANE
5/289 Tudor House
the address shall be amended to read CHISLET FORSTAL
Tudor House
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1. 5273 CHISLET MARLEY LANE
Tudor House (formerly listed as Tudor Cottage, The Forstal) TR 26 SW 5/289 29.9.52.
II*
2. Hall-house of Wealden form circa 1440, with chimney and ceiling over open hall inserted circa 1500 and porches and bay added in 1637. Timber-framed building with plaster infilling, the end window bays of the first floor oversailing on the protruding ends of the floor joists and with brackets and curved braces. The recessed centre has curved braces supporting the overhanging eaves. Steeply- pitched hipped tiled roof with C16 link chimneystack. Three casement windows. The centre portion has a two storeyed bay dated 1637 and added then, of which the first floor has decorative black and white scrollwork and the date and the ground floor has been rebuilt in modern red brick. To the south of this is a red brick porch, also added in 1637, with round-headed archway and shaped Dutch gable. Chimneybreast on each end wall. Behind the porch is the original wooden door surround with blank spandrels. The interior contains two inglenook fireplaces and an original stone fireplace with blank spandrels, upright posts with jowls, embattled beam to former open-hall, one square crownpost of circa 1440, an octagonal moulded crownpost of later date, smoke blackened rafters, original doors and some panelling in an upstairs room. Grade II* as a good example of a Wealden hall-house with exceptional interior features.
Listing NGR: TR2331864878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 171125
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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