Little Old Hay
LITTLE OLD HAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254298
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Little Old Hay
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE OLD HAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254298
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Little Old Hay
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE OLD HAY
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:
- LITTLE OLD HAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Paddock Wood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 69680 44053
Details
TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD PEARSONS GREEN (off)
6/347 Little Old Hay 27.8.87 II
House. C16 or earlier in origin. 1989 extensions being added at time of survey. Framed construction, the right end tile-hung; peg-tile roof; stack with brick shaft. Rear elevation said to be brick, partly "English bond, some stretcher bond" (1987 list descirption). Concrete block extensions.
Plan: Details of plan unclear on survey as interior access unobtainable. The house may have originated as an open hall, either with an open hearth or a smoke bay. West facing. 3 bays, the middle bay narrow. This may have been a smoke bay or passage bay. It does not correspond exactly to the position of the chimney shaft, which is to left of centre. There are 2 doors with C17 frames on the front, one within the narrow bay, another alongside to the right: the house was presumably divided into 2 cottages in the C17. The ground floor plan may be 2- or 3-rooms wide, the 2 left hand rooms probably heated by back-to-back fireplaces in the axial stack, perhaps with an unheated service room at the right end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Deep roof hipped and gabletted at the left end, half- hipped at the right end. Modern brick shaft to the axial stack. The exposed framing is of large scantling with curved tension braces above the mdidle rail and close-studding below, with evidence of former windows in the frame. Slightly asymmetrical 2-window front with 2 C19 plank doors toward the centre, each with Tudor arched frames with carved spandrels. 2 ground floor C19 or early C20 3-light timber casements with glazing bars; 2 first floor C18 or C19 12-pane sliding sashes. The left return has a roof dormer with a hipped roof and exposed framing.
Interior and Roof: Not inspected.
An internal inspection, including examination of the roof timbers would establish whether or not this is an open hall house and might necessitate revising the descirption and possibly the grade of this building.
1957 photographs of the building in the National Monuments Record show the front elevation weatherboarded.
Listing NGR: TQ6968044053
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437740
- 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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