Description

TQ6059-6159 WROTHAM C.P. BULL LANE
7/34
1.8.52 The Old Palace
(formerly Listed as
Remains of
Archbishop's Palace)

II*

House, possibly the former kitchen wing if the long-demolished Archbishop's Palace.
C16, incorporating parts of pre-1340 date. Coursed ragstone on wide ragstone
plinth. Some windows with early C16 red brick dressings, some replaced by stone
dressings. Plain tiled roof with return gable off-centre to left. End stack at
right, off-ridge stack behind gable with coupled octagonal stacks, probably C16, and
slope stack at left end. 2 storeys and attics; irregular fenestration. 1 window on
each floor under gable, 2 windows on both floors to left, I window on both floors at
extreme right-hand end. Square-headed doorway, with doubled glazed doors, on
ground-floor to right of gable. At right-hand end is a 2-storey ruin with 1 blocked
window on each floor facing south, the whole obviously originally taller. Blocked
window of early C13 character behind. The palace was used by the Archbishops of
Canterbury as a resting-place on the way to London, but it was demolished and used
as a granary in the building of Maidstone palace. Ruins restored as a manor house
by the Byng family during the C16. See J Newman, The Buildings of England: West
Kent and the Weald, 1969, p.592.

Listing NGR: TQ6128259156

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546965

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)