Kite Manor

Heritage listing

Details TR 13 NW MONKS HORTON 3/33 Broad Street 27.8.52 Kite Manor II* House. C15, with mid-to-late C16, early C18 and C19 alterations. Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Ground floor beneath stack and ground floor of right end bay red brick in a mixed bond. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with unequal-length hall bays and storeyed bay to each end. Hall floored in C16 and first floor jettied flush with first floor of end bays. 2 storeys. Stone plinth, capped in right end bay with later cogged brick course. Close studded. Left end bay jettied on solid brackets. Right end bay formerly jettied, jetty returning to right, and now underbuilt. Hall jetty higher, with moulded and brattished fascia board and moulding to base of solid central bracket. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Red brick stack in front slope of roof to right end of left hall bay and projecting brick stack to right end. Cogged brick cornice to N both stacks and to base of right stack. Plaque to latter stack :I E Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 8-light wood mullion 1707 window to left end bay, similar 5-light window with leaded external glazing above door, and one 3-light leaded casement to right end bay. Gabled oriel window to first floor of right hall bay, rising through eaves, with carved bargeboards, later 2-light stained-glass window to gable, and moulded and brattished tie-beam with 4-centred-arched base and carved pendants to ends. 10-light moulded mullioned and transomed window with leaded lights and canted 2-light side-pieces, moulded cill and coved plastered base with brattished strip across bottom. Cill renewed but said to have been dated 1574. Below, on ground floor, a 12-light moulded mullioned and transomed window, of same period, also with side-lights, on brick base, with moulded 2-light mul

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.