Moatenden Priory
MOATENDEN PRIORY, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367452
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Moatenden Priory
- Statutory Address:
- MOATENDEN PRIORY, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367452
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Moatenden Priory
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOATENDEN PRIORY, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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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:
- MOATENDEN PRIORY, MAIDSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Headcorn
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 81889 46407
Details
HEADCORN MAIDSTONE ROAD TQ 84 NW (West Side) Hawkenbury
Moatenden Priory 5/60 (formerly listed as Moatenden) 26.4.68
GV II
Farmhouse, possibly incorporating fragment of house of Trinitarian Friars at left end. Now house. Late C15 or first half of C16, with Cl7 and later alterations. Ground floor of left section red brick with grey brick diaper pattern and irregular stone quoins to left corner; of central section red and grey brick in Flemish bond, and of right end bay C19 banded red and grey brick in English bond. First floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Plinth of C15 or C16 stone to left section; later ashlarged stone, and banded red and grey brick to central section; and irregular stone blocks to right end. Hipped roof, with gablet to right. Filleted multiple brick stack in rear slope of roof towards right. Irregular fenestration of five 9-pane sashes. Left section has one 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion ground-floor window with round-headed lights, moulded jambs and squared hoodmould to left of door and similar single-light window to right of door. 2 similar rear windows aligned with those to front. Hollow-chamfered stone doorway with rounded, almost 4-centred arched head and hoodmould to right end of left end bay. Panelled door with C19 open timber porch beneath stack. Rear elevation has 3 gables, 2 jettied on shaped brackets. Interior: exposed framing. Stone doorway with 4-centred arched head and another stone opening adjacent to it in right wall of left end bay. Plain crown-post to right end of same bay. Moated site. House of Trinitarian Friars founded circa 1235, and dissolved 1536.
Listing NGR: TQ8188946407
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174308
- 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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