Clapper House and Pump
CLAPPER HOUSE AND PUMP, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249748
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Clapper House and Pump
- Statutory Address:
- CLAPPER HOUSE AND PUMP, EAST STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07309/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249748
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Clapper House and Pump
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAPPER HOUSE AND PUMP, EAST STREET
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:
- CLAPPER HOUSE AND PUMP, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunton
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ7299448888
Details
TQ 74 NW
4/66
25.7.52
EAST STREET
HUNTON
(East Side)
Clapper House and Pump
GV
II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid C15 with early C17 alterations, early C19
additions and early C20 restoration. Timber-framed, with rendered
infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden of 2 roughly equal-length hall
bays and storeyed end bays, that to left end slightly longer. 2
storeys, on stone plinth. Close-studded. Right and left end bays
jettied, jetties returning, underbuilt, on plain dragon posts. Solid
bracket under central tie-beam and renewed solid-spandrel braces to
flying wall-plate. Higher midrail to left hall bay and further rail
just below inner wall-plate. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack
to centre of left hall bay, and projecting red and grey brick stack with
stone base to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 leaded
casements; one 3-light to each end bay and to right hall bay, and one
2-light under stack. 7-light ovolo-moulded mullion first-floor window
to rear. Blocked doorway under stack. Low stone lean-to to left,
wrapping round rear of left end bay, with timber-framed rear wall.
Central single-storey red brick rear wing, with gable end stack,
internal brick copper-stand, and boarded door to right side. Pump
beside door with plaque RB
1804 Interior: exposed framing. Moulded
octagonal crown post, on cambered tie-beam morticed for solid-spandrel
braces and fillet. Chamfer-stopped stone fireplace, including one to
first floor .
Listing NGR: TQ7299448888
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431953
- 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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