Synyards, and path between front door and road

Synyards, and path between front door and road, Otham Street

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1263084
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:: Synyards, and path between front door and road
Statutory Address:: Synyards, and path between front door and road, Otham Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1263084
Date first listed:: 25-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:: Synyards, and path between front door and road
Statutory Address 1:: Synyards, and path between front door and road, Otham Street

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Synyards, and path between front door and road, Otham Street

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Otham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 79734 53120

Details

TQ 75 SE 3/225 OTHAM OTHAM STREET (east side) Synyards, and path between front door and road

25.7.52

GV I House. Later C15, C16 and circa 1663. Restored 1905 by P.M. Johnston. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof.

Wealden, with open hall of two roughly equal-length timber-framed bays and storeyed end bays, that to left longer. Both end bays formerly subdivided into two rooms on ground floor. Two storeys, attic and cellar on stone plinth. Right and left end bays jettied, left jetty returning on moulded dragon post. Close-studded. Higher midrail to right hall bay. Broad low window cill across left hall bay. Short arch braces; to each end of flying wall-plate, and springing from each side of an unusual central post under the plate. Post jowled towards house, clasping plate, and resting on short bracketed spur protruding from central truss post just above midrail.

Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablet to right. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof, to left end of hall. Later filleted brick stack in front slope of left end of right end bay. Gabled dormer resting on flying wall-plate over right hall bay, sides rising to moulded tie-beam and fillet. Moulded bargeboards.

Three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window, with inverted heart and date 1663 painted on plaster. Five-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window with carved fillet over, between tie-beam and flying wall-plate. Irregular fenestration of three windows; one two-light latticed casement to centre of each end bay, and window to centre of left hall bay of six narrow round-headed lights, three with ogee-moulded mullions to each side of central stud, and with deep plain wooden head. Similar, but smaller, six-light window to ground floor of left end bay. Four-light ogee-moulded mullion window to right of left hall flay. Blocked four-light diamond mullion window to ground floor of right end bay. Further diamond and ovolo-moulded mullioned windows to gable ends and rear. C16 rectangular bay window on chamfered stone base towards front of left gable end, with six-light ogee-moulded mullioned and transomed window with side-lights. C16 canted eight-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed bay window on stone base to right gable end, brought from a Maidstone house in early C20. Broad boarded door in moulded four-centred arched architrave with hollow spandrels, and with brattished and moulded fillet over, to right end of hall.Short C19 rear return wing to right, ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor weatherboarded, with hipped plain tile roof.

Interior: exposed framing. Moulded four-centred arched doorway with hollow spandrels to rear of cross-passage. Pair of similar service doorways with ground-cill retained under them to right end of hall, within close-studded partition under moulded end-of-hall beam. Moulded, brattished left end of hall beam with plank-and-muntin partition under. Long moulded cill to hall window. Evidence for stairs to rear of each end bay; later cellar stairs now in that position in left end room. Chamfered midrails and chamfered window cill to left end room on both floors. Moulded principal posts to central truss, but tie-beam moved into left hall bay to avoid 1663 dormer window. Tie-beam cambered and hollow-chamfered, morticed for braces towards centre. Crown-post, with restored moulded capital, transferred to inserted axial tie-beam. Inserted floor to hall with chamfered beams.

Hall fireplace with chamfered stone jambs, low vase stops and cambered chamfered bressumer. Brick chimney breast with tapering inset straight-joints. Moulded four-centred-arched stone fireplace with rose, leaf and knot to spandrels, to ground floor of left end room. Differently-moulded four-centred-arched stone fireplace with hollow spandrels to first floor of left end room, with wall-painting to chimney breast of lion and dragon facing each other over vase of fruit and foliage. Further concealed wall-paintings to north and west walls of same room, said to depict merman and mermaid. C16 panelling to various parts of ground floor.

Path: ragstone path about 5' wide and 70' long between front door and road.

Listing NGR: TQ7973453120

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Sources

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'Country Life' in Country Life, (1919)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.