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3 and 4, West Street

3 AND 4, WEST STREET, NEW ROMNEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1025299
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: 3 and 4, West Street
Statutory Address:: 3 AND 4, WEST STREET, NEW ROMNEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1025299
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:: 3 and 4, West Street
Statutory Address 1:: 3 AND 4, WEST STREET, NEW ROMNEY

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 3 AND 4, WEST STREET, NEW ROMNEY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: New Romney
National Grid Reference:: TR 06255 24739

Details

TR 0624 1/39

NEW ROMNEY WEST STREET (Southwest Side) Nos. 3 and 4

28-AUG-1951

GV II* Originally one property, currently divided into two. Early C14 single aisled open hall with original south end replaced by a two bay crosswing of c1400 (no 3), chimney inserted into former open hall in late C15 or early C16 and c1800 refenestration and ceiling over of former open hall. Mainly of stone rubble with some brick patching and weatherboarded upper floor to crosswing. Tiled roof, gabled to main range, hipped to crosswing and two brick chimneystacks. Now two storeys and attics, three windows. Early C19 12-pane sashes to no 3 and mainly mid C19 sash windows to no 4.

PLAN FORM: Early C14 single aisled open hall of two bays with further northern bay with a heated chamber above and undercroft below (no 4) and original south end replaced by a two bay crosswing of c1400 with unheated upper chamber aligned east to west (no 3).

EXTERIOR: East or entrance front is of stone rubble with bands of knapped flint except for the projecting first floor crosswing to the south which is timberframed and clad in weatherboarding supported on a wooden bracket. The southern bay and ground floor of the northern bay have 12-pane sashes. The upper northern bay has a C19 casement and the central bay originally contained a tall hall window which retains the original side jambs and has later divided between two storeys with C18 brickwork. This has a C19 casement to the first floor and sash to the ground floor. On the line of the cross passage, between the southern and central window bays is an early C14 two-centred arched doorcase with C19 plank door. A further doorcase with a brick surround was added c1800 between the central and northern window bays. The north and south ends of the building are concealed by later buildings. The west or rear elevation has a catslide roof over the aisle and is of painted stone rubble with some brickwork but the first floor of the crosswing to no 3 is rendered. C19 hipped dormer and C20 windows and door to no 4. The late C20 conservatory to no 3 not of special interest.

INTERIOR: Ground floor central room has early C14 moulded wooden dais beam, a late C15 or early C16 inserted stone fireplace with carved wooden bressumer with carved leaf spandrels and gabled salt niche, c1800 ceiling beams and late C18 six-panelled door. The northern ground floor room has the early C14 north wall with stone supports for the fireplace in the chamber above and a square niche, possibly for a lantern. The ceiling beams are of c1800 but a medieval floor joist remains on the line of the arcade. The western arcade retains an early C14 square aisle post with long curved arcade brace rising within the former open hall and shorter curved brace rising within the former northern chamber and early C17 infill framing to the northern bay. The early C14 aisle rafters survive. A further aisle post may be concealed behind later partitions. The northern first floor room (the original chamber) has an early C14 stone fireplace with wooden bressumer in the north wall and to the east a large early C14 ogee-headed niche with the rebate for a door. As there is no internal evidence for an original staircase or doorway to the upper floor there was probably an external staircase either to north or west. The central first floor room retains the splayed internal jamb of the hall window and the remains of the hall truss. The attic floor retains an early C14 sans-purlin roof with rafters intact (including smoke-blackened rafters) but the collars were removed after 1973 to provide greater headroom. The upper floor of the southern crosswing is timberframed retaining a cambered tiebeam with arch braces and a freestanding crownpost with a shaft of octagonal cross section with roll-moulded cap and four way head braces and a number of original rafters.

HISTORY: An early C14 domestic building of high social status which may have been a merchant's house or the Master's dwelling or possibly the communal hall of St. John's Hospital in the Cinque Port of New Romney. It postdates the 1297 inundation of New Romney when the River Rother was diverted to Rye and the sea gradually receded.

SOURCES: Pevsner/John Newman BOE "West Kent and the Weald" 1969 revised 1980. p435.

E.W Parkin "Archaeologia Cantiana Vol LXXXVIII" 1973.

David Martin and Barbara Martin "An Archaeological Interpretative Survey of 3-4 West Street, New Romney" August 2004.

Gillian Draper and Frank Meddens "The Sea and the Marsh" PCA MONOGRAPH 10, 2009 p.52-53.

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: A substantially intact and rare example of a small early C14 aisled hall of high social status with a very early intact dais beam, very rare original chamber fireplace, late C14 crosswing and good quality late C15 or early C16 inserted wood and stone fireplace amongst other features of interest.

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Legacy System number:: 175065
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.