Listed Building: GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE (1060666)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1416, 1, 92
Date assigned 23 May 1967
Date last amended

Description

TQ 74 NW MARDEN HUNTON ROAD (east side) 1/92 Gatehouse Farmhouse (formerly listed 23.5.67 as Gatehouse) GV II Farmhouse. C15, with C17 alterations and C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond, first floor tile- hung. Exposed framing with rendered infilling to first floor of left return and to rear gable end of right wing. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 timber-framed bays, with 2-bay cross-wing to left projecting to rear and very slightly to front. Integral cross-wing to right of approximately 2 bays, projecting to rear only. 2 storeys and attic. Exposed framing of relatively thin scantling with straight tension brace to first floor of left return. Broadly-spaced studding with arch braces to rear of right wing. Roof hipped to left and right, hips returning to rear. Flat roof to projecting front of left wing. Dormer to right hip. Slender projecting red and grey brick stack to left gable end, rear brick stack to left, and filleted red and grey brick stack to narrower left hall bay (to junction of hall and left wing). Irregular fenestration of 3 tripartite sashes, one to each wing and one to right hall bay. Blocked doorway under stack. Later extension to rear of left wing. Rear lean-to to hall, with door. Interior: moulded right end-of-hall beam over partition of broadly-spaced studs. Partition above it with central stud and tension braces. Cambered central-truss tie-beam set much lower than wall-plates of wings; hall wall-plates raised in C17 or later. Gunstock-jowled posts to wings. C15 partition with studs, tension braces and plain integral doorway under central tie-beam of left wing. Chamfered C17 axial beam and plain brick fireplace to ground floor of right hall bay. Side-purlin roof with re-used timbers. See also item 1/100. Listing NGR: TQ7358245965

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7358 4596 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NW
Civil Parish MARDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM