Listed Building: DOG HOUSE FARMHOUSE (1242359)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1418, 1, 186
Date assigned 17 October 1988
Date last amended

Description

TR 14 NW STELLING MINNIS STONE STREET (East side) 1/186 Dog House Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C17, with later alterations, C19 facade, and mid-C20 addition to right. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in a mixed bond, first floor rendered. Left gable end has exposed principal posts, and framing of 2 panels to storey-height with brick infilling. First floor of rear gable end of left wing framed, with curved tension braces. Plain tile roof. L-plan, with left cross-wing of three short timber-framed bays, projecting to rear, and main range of one bay, possibly with stack bay towards junction with wing. Mid-C20 addition to right. 2 storeys. Rendered.plinth. Roof hipped to left (hip returning to rear), gabled to right, cross-wing roof hipped to rear. Red and grey brick ridge stack towards centre. Irregular fenestration of two twenty-pane lights (some panes opening as casements), with segmental heads. Similar windows to ground floor. Semi-octagonal weatherboarded porch under stack, with swept leaded roof, acorn finial, and projecting eaves with pendant wooden fringe, supported on iron columns. Door of six fielded panels with paterae, and two twelve- pane lights, also with paterae. Right addition set back, with brick ground floor, weatherboarded first floor, hipped plain tile roof, and one twelve-pane sash. Interior: right ground-floor room has chamfered axial beam, and cross beam in front of stack. Wing has front room of two timber-framed bays, with chamfered cross beam terminating on shaped bracket, chamfered joists, and slight evidence for former front gable-end jetty. Rear bay formerly partitioned off. Chamfered rectangular doorways to first floor. Gunstock-jowled posts. Mortices for five- light mullion window with dowel subsidiary mullions to front gable end of wing on first floor. Brick fireplaces with wooden bressumers. Listing NGR: TR1363448448

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TR 1363 4844 (point)
Map sheet TR14NW
County KENT
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish STELLING MINNIS, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Feb 6 2024 9:03AM