Listed Building: COURT FARMHOUSE (1070571)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1347, 11, 25
Date assigned 01 August 1952
Date last amended

Description

AYLESFORD CP BULL LANE TQ 7259 (north side) 11/25 Court Farmhouse 1.8.52 GV II* Hall-house, now farmhouse. Probably C16 with some earlier remains. Timber- framed with painted brick ground floor and rendered first floor. Plain tiled roof, hipped to left, with large left-end brick stack and random rubble stone projecting breast, and ridge stack off-centre to right. 2 storeys; 3 windows, slightly irregular, triple casements above, six-light casements below. Half- glazed door to left of central window, with C19 gabled porch with barge-boards and wooden supports. South front originally jettied with joist-ends now supported by large bressummer. Blocked 4-light mullioned window on 1st floor. Interior: Much evidence of substantial frame. C17 spiral staircase with solid newel and timber treads in framed addition to rear. Collar-purlin roof with moulded crown-post. C17 boarded door with original snecked latch in attic. Original door-surround, probably C15 and arched, at staircase end of screens- passage, but facing in towards building rather than out. 2 mullioned windows are said to have been found also facing into the building. Listing NGR: TQ7279359043

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7279 5904 (point)
Map sheet TQ75NW
Civil Parish AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM