Listed Building: BARNFIELD FARMHOUSE (1084617)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1351, 16, 352
Date assigned 22 June 1989
Date last amended

Description

HAWKHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7430-7530 (south side) 16/352 Barnfield Farmhouse GV II House. C16 or earlier, altered C16 to C18 and extended late C19. Timber framed and weather-boarded, with tile-hung cross-wing, painted to front elevation. Red brick and sandstone base. Plain tiled roofs. Possible hall house origin now lobby entry plan, rebuilt and extended with cross wing C16/C17. Two storeys with 2-storey and garret cross-wing. Hipped main range with stacks to left and to centre right; half-hipped cross-wing. Wooden casement on each floor of cross-wing and irregular ranges of wooden casements to main block. Boarded door to centre with flat hood on brackets. Three half-hipped wings projecting at rear, with wooden casements. Many casements retain C18 leaded crown glass lights. C19 red brick dairy attached to rear left. Interior: fully framed interior of several periods. End right appears to be 2 bay C16 cross-wing with 1 bay of main range, the central section of the main range rebuilt and spliced into the frame of this end section. Cross-wing at left separately framed. Renewed clasped purlin roofs throughout (C17 probably). Inglenooks with sandstone blocks at base, chamfered wooden chimney bressummers and coving. Brick floors to ground floor, 14" oak boards to upper floor. Great and Little Barnfield Hundreds take their names form this site. Listing NGR: TQ7504130644

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7504 3064 (point)
Map sheet TQ73SE
Civil Parish HAWKHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM