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Starkey Castle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Starkeys Castle
In the civil parish of Wouldham.
In the historic county of Kent (Modern Authority of Kent, 1974 county of Kent).
Considerable remains of a small, possibly fortified, manor house, possibly at one time also hospice, now house. Circa 1360-1380, C15 and early C19. Random rubble with dressed stone quoins and dressings. Some galletting. Plain tiled roof, with coped parapeted gabled cross-wing to left and tall stone and stack at extrance left. Central buttress to hall at right. Hall-house plan with services to left and solar wing to right, probably demolished in C17. 1 storey hall, floored in C16 and C17 and 2 storey cross- to left with 2 storey out-blocks behind and to left. Wide pointed-arched 3- light traceried window on cross-wing to left on first-floor above square-headed early C19 Tudor-style window on ground-floor. 2-storey pointed-arched dais window with early C19 wood and stone mullion and tracery in moulded surround with drip-mould to right. Square-headed windows with drip-moulds and 2-light Tudor-style glazing on ground and first-floors to right of centre. Doorway to left of centre in moulded pointed-arched surround with drip-mould. Doubled doors with 'Gothick'-glazed archlight. One of the most complete surviving stone-built medieval hall-houses in Southern England.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Manor House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Major remains.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 179417)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ71386560
PastScape number;
520762
Books
- Emery, Anthony, 2006, Greater Medieval Houses Vol3 (Cambridge) p408-10
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p129
Guy, John, 1980, Kent Castles (Meresborough Books)
Journal Articles
- Ward, A., Cross, R. and Bennett, P., 1990, Archaeologia Cantiana Vol108 p244-52
Swain, Eric R., 1967, ' Starkey Castle, Wouldham' Archaeologia Cantiana Vol81 p118-125
Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
- Mercer, E., NMRC Report 39731
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