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Bishops

A Grade II Listed Building in Otham, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2445 / 51°14'40"N

Longitude: 0.5785 / 0°34'42"E

OS Eastings: 580065

OS Northings: 152642

OS Grid: TQ800526

Mapcode National: GBR PRH.WLT

Mapcode Global: VHJMF.ZZ5B

Plus Code: 9F326HVH+R9

Entry Name: Bishops

Listing Date: 25 July 1952

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1250689

English Heritage Legacy ID: 433145

ID on this website: 101250689

Location: Otham Hole, Maidstone, Kent, ME15

County: Kent

District: Maidstone

Civil Parish: Otham

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description


AVERY LANE
TQ 75 SE OTHAM
(North Side)
3/215 Bishops
25.7.52 II

House. C15 or early C16, with C19 additions. Timber framed with plaster
infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, of 2 unequal-length hall bays and
storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and attic. Broadly-spaced studding. Ogee
tension braces to right and left end bays. Right and left end bays jettied,
jetties returning on plain dragon-posts. Inserted hall floor formerly
jettied; jetty removed from left hall bay in early C20 and underbuilt to
right. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with
gablets. Multiple brick ridge stack in front slope of roof, to left hall
bay. Rear stack to left and projecting brick stack to right gable end.
2 gabled dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded windows; one canted
6-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on central carved and shaped
bracket to left end bay, one to right hall bay, and one 4-light casement
to right end bay. One 3-light diamond mullion ground-floor window to
left end bay. Boarded door in hollow-chamfered 4-centred arched architrave
to left end of hall. Timber-framed rear return wing to left. Late C19
timber-framed rear wing to centre, with 2 gables to its long right side.
Interior not inspected, but said to contain brattished crown post.


Listing NGR: TQ8006552642

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