Description

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TQ 5259 21/745
5280

OTFORD
OTFORD
The Green
The Chantry House

GV
II*

House, until c1540 a court hall then a house, subsequently converted into 2 cottages
in the early C18. c1330-50 Court Hall with robing room at north end on 1st floor,
with ground floor jail and possibly open market hall, converted into a house c1540
with curing chamber with C17 T-wing added and altered in C20. Timber framed
building, the first floor tile hung, the ground floor with exposed framing and brick
nogging. Steeply pitched tiled roof, gabled to north and hipped with gablet to
south. Brick chimneystacks. 2 storeys and attics, 3 windows. Originally
rectangular plan with C17 T-wing. Modern leaded casements, several on first floor
in old frames. North front has 2 C16 windows with good mouldings, the northerly
one an oriel. The others are small C17 lights including 1 in attic to north gable.
West front has 1 window and C14 jetty on either side of C17 1 bay wing and C16 brick
external chimneystack, the top restored in C20. Circa 1907 1 storey kitchen wing
projecting from C17 wing. East front has C17 framed ground floor with blocked
doorway below formerly jettied C14 upper floor. 1 lower and 3 upper windows,
irregular, and C18 brick chimneystack projecting to right. The south end is a
modern reconstruction truncating the original length of the building. The first
floor is wholly open to collar level of the C14 roof. 5 bays with squared crown-
posts and single king strut. 4 bays remain of first floor hall (now divided by
modern stairs and partitions) with 5th bay occupied by former jury or robing room
on first floor and jail on ground floor. Heavy C14 floor joists throughout visible
as ceiling beams of ground floor rooms. Both chimney-breasts contain inglenooks
with original timber lintel beams. The C16 one is 4 centred with rich mouldings
and its inglenook retains a remarkable integrated curing chamber. Triangular headed
salt recess. Series of carpenter's marks. (see Anthony Stoyel's 'Otford's Medieval
Court Hall' 1980. Margaret Sparks and Tim Tatton-Brown 'Crown Post and King Strut
Roofs in South East England' Medieval Archaeology XXVII (1983), p130).

Listing NGR: TQ5282259295

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545875

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)