Listed Building: DUNBURY FARMHOUSE (1060947)

Grade II*
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1674, 4, 28
Date assigned 18 December 1985
Date last amended

Description

CHART SUTTON CHART HILL TQ 792 463 ROAD (east side) 4/28 Dunbury Farmhouse GV II* Farmhouse. C14 with later alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. Probably open hall with rear aisle, bay to left end and flush 2-bay cross-wing to right end. 2 storeys and attics. Continuous ground-floor. Cross-wing jettied to front and long right side. Roof of hall range hipped to left. Hipped roof to wing with higher eaves and ridge and large gablet. Ridge stack at junction of hall and wing. 2 hipped rear dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; one 2- light and one 3-light to main range and one 3-light to wing. Boarded door under stack. Rear lean-to to hall, formerly an aisle. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded octagonal crown- post to wing, on moulded cambered tie-beam with large moulded solid-spandrel braces and doubly hollow-chamfered principal posts. Largely reassembled hall roof with trenches for collars. Long cut jowls to hall posts. Moulded doorway with depressed ogee head between hall range and wing. Moulded brackets beneath ground-floor ceiling beams. Evidence for windows and possible garderobe to rear gable end of wing. Listing NGR: TQ7963349807

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 7916 4628 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NE
Civil Parish CHART SUTTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM