Oast House Cottage and Weavers
OAST HOUSE COTTAGE AND WEAVERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263621
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Oast House Cottage and Weavers
- Statutory Address:
- OAST HOUSE COTTAGE AND WEAVERS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263621
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Oast House Cottage and Weavers
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAST HOUSE COTTAGE AND WEAVERS
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:
- OAST HOUSE COTTAGE AND WEAVERS
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:
- TQ 72383 50782
Details
BARN HILL TQ 75 SW HUNTON (East Side) 2/59 Oast House Cottage and Weavers II House, formerly oasthouse, now house. Early C17. Wing dated 1623. Converted to oasthouse in C19. Restored in 1980s. Timber framed. Chequered red and grey brick to ground floor of main range, first floor rendered. Red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor of cross-wing, exposed framing with plaster infilling to first floor. Rear section stone on ground floor, weatherboarded above. Plain tile roofs. Main range of approximately 3 timber-framed bays. Cross-wing to right of 3 timber- framed bays, projecting to rear. Stair turret in angle between main range and wing. Timber-framed section of one bay at right-angles to rear of wing,parallel to and adjoining stair turret and possibly with C16 or earlier core. Main range 2 storeys, wing 2 storeys and attic. Gable of attic jettied on carved brackets to front and rear, with carved pendants to tie-beam ends. Rear tie-beam carved. Front beam, bargeboards and pendant formerly carved, now plain. Carved bargeboards and tie-beam to stair turret. Multiple brick ridge stack to right end of main range. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; two 2-light casements and one 3-light to main range, and one 12-light canted mullioned-and transomed C20 oriel window with coved base to wing, re-using C17 mortices. Boarded door with flat bracketed hood beneath stack, and boarded door with cambered head to centre of gable end of wing. Wing formerly dated 1623 on carved gable-end jetty bressumer. Interior: exposed framing. Former bargeboard embedded in wall of wing. (K. Gravett, Timber and Brick Building in Kent, 1971.)
Listing NGR: TQ7238350782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431900
- 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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