Listed Building: GREAT CHEVENEY (1060685)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1416, 3, 46
Date assigned 23 May 1967
Date last amended

Description

TQ 74 SW MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD (west side) 3/46 Great Cheveney (Formerly listed 23.5.67 as Cheveney Farm House) II House, formerly cottages, now farmhouse. Late C16 or early C17, with early C17 addition to right. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Left side of wing red and grey brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, tile-hung above. Plain tile roof. L-plan, with added cross-wing to right. Left cross-wing of two timber-framed bays, flush with main range to front. Main range comprising stack bay (adjoining left wing) and one timber-framed bay. Separately-framed early C17 right cross-wing of 2 timber-framed bays, flush with main range to front and possibly formerly continuing further to rear. Main range 2 storeys, wings 2 storeys and garret. Brick plinth. Close-studded. Underbuilt jetty to front of right wing. Higher midrail to left wing. Arch braces to stack bay and tension brace to right bay of main range. Gable of left wing jettied on moulded bressumer and shaped brackets; roof hipped to rear. Roof of right wing hipped to front with gablet, hip returned along main range; wing roof half-hipped to rear. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of main range, and projecting brick stack to right side of right wing. Two-light casement to gable of left wing. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded windows; one four-light mullioned window with blocked frieze windows to each wing, and one two-light casement towards right end of main range. One four-light mullioned window with blocked frieze windows to ground floor of south wing, and evidence for oriel window to each floor. Ribbed door to right end of main range. Interior: exposed framing. Left wing has re-used C15 moulded and brattished end-of-hall beam over moulded plank-and- muntin partition, re-used plain (sooted?) crown post with head braces and mortices for foot braces, and a former moulded tie-beam cut to form two principal posts. Cambered central tie-beam with deep arch braces, and four-centred arched doorhead with hollow spandrels, to same wing. Blocked five-light mullioned window to former right gable end of main range. Clasped-purlin roofs to main range and right wing. Listing NGR: TQ7358142242

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7376 4230 (point)
Map sheet TQ74SW
Civil Parish MARDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM