Lenham Court
LENHAM COURT, OLD HAM LANE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116246
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lenham Court
- Statutory Address:
- LENHAM COURT, OLD HAM LANE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-10-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/10268/19
- Rights:
- © Ms Lesley Feakes. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1116246
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lenham Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- LENHAM COURT, OLD HAM 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:
- LENHAM COURT, OLD HAM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 88418 51992
Details
LENHAM OLD HAM LANE TQ 85 SE (west side) 4/219 Lenham Court II* House. Mid C15, late C16, early C18 and early C20. Timber framed, with rendered infilling and plain tile roof. Probably a Wealden, possibly recessed to front and rear. Hall of 2 roughly equal bays with storeyed end bay to left and early C18 cross-wing to right 2 bays deep. Early C20 single storey single bay rear wing to right and early C20 addition to left, doubling length of frontage. 2 storeys and attics on plinth. Original building: close studded. Left end bay jettied on moulded dragon post with eaves higher than hall wall plate and roof hipped. Right end bay also jettied with early C20 decorated jettied gable with pendant. Roof hipped to right and continuous with C20 ex- tension to left. Multiple late C16 brick stack in front slope of roof off-centre casement to right gable. Irregular fenestration of 4 early C20 windows with leaded lights; one 3-light casement to left end bay, one canted 2-storey bay window to left bay of hall, one 2-light casement over cross-passage and one canted 5-light oriel to right bay. French doors in original door position at right end of hall. Early C20 addition: Applied close-studding. Left gable jettied and decorated to match right end. Loggia with first floor over to left of this. 6 windows. 2-storey timber- framed porch to right end against left end of original building. C20 ribbed door under porch, with C15 4-centred arched door-head with carved spandrels probably removed from site of French doors. Interior: Heavily moulded brattished dais beam. Rare moulded brattished dais spear, not in its original position, near hall fireplace. Moulded crown post now supporting ground-floor hall ceiling. Principal posts of central truss moulded, and each with one finely- carved engaged column with moulded capital and base. Cambered central truss tie-beam with hollow chamfer and large braces with solid spandrels, joined across centre by fillet. Back door of cross- passage"in situ" with 4-centred arched head and carved spandrels. First floor ceiling of left-hand bay with relatively elaborate early C17 chamfer-stops and of right end bay with ovolo-moulded beams. Roof of right cross-wing has clasped purlins with diminishing principal rafters and small curved windbraces. Other exposed timbers. Early C20 rear bay probably built for panelling it contains; elaborately carved rectangular panels with motifs including heads. Said to have been owned by Elder and Younger Pitt. Owned by Pitt family until late C20.
Listing NGR: TQ8841851992
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173955
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 17-Jun-2026 at 13:24:12.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.