Ploggs Hall Oast
PLOGGS HALL OAST, 1 AND 2, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253176
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ploggs Hall Oast
- Statutory Address:
- PLOGGS HALL OAST, 1 AND 2, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/00667/02
- Rights:
- © Mrs Barbara Ingram-Monk. Source: Historic England Archive
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253176
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ploggs Hall Oast
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLOGGS HALL OAST, 1 AND 2, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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:
- PLOGGS HALL OAST, 1 AND 2, MAIDSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 65659 45955
Details
TQ 64 NE CAPEL MAIDSTONE ROAD, WHETSTEAD
2/267 Nos 1 and 2 Ploggs Hall Oast
II
Oasthouse, converted into 2 houses. Early/mid C19, converted circa 1980. Red brick with some burnt headers laid to Monk and Flemish bonds, front wall is timber-framed and clad with weatherboards. Peg-tile roof to the former stowage and the kilns have coated brick roofs. Plan: Originally a relatively large oasthouse facing east north east, say east. Stowage is roughly square in plan. It has parallel roofs and had an open arcade across the front. 4 hop kilns across the back and a fifth on the left (south) end. It is now converted to 2 similar houses divided from front to back. No 1 to right (south) and No 2 to left. The odd fifth kiln belongs to Ploggs Hall (q.v.). Former stowage is 2 storeys.
Exterior: Front first floor level has the original arrangement of 6 windows, 3 either side of a plain plank loading hatch door. Window like all the others around the house are C20 casements with no glazing bars. Originally a 6-bay arcade below still has open bays providing a central entrance porch to each house. Centre bays are garage now. Other windows in the side walls have segmental arch heads. Roofs are hipped both ends. Circular hop kilns with cogged brick cornices, tall conical roofs and cowls.
Interior: Has plain original carpentry detail including a roof of A-frame trusses with mortise, tenoned and pegged collars. No 1 still contains the hop press which has been moved to the ground floor.
This converted oast house forms a group with the nearby converted barn (q.v.) and Ploggs Hall (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ6565945955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436315
- 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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