Listed Building: KENWARD FARMHOUSE (1099152)
Grade | II |
---|---|
Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1417, 6, 143 |
Date assigned | 14 October 1987 |
Date last amended |
Description
YALDING KENWARD ROAD TQ 65 SE & 6950 (West side) 1 & 6/143 Kenward Farmhouse II
Farmhouse, formerly cottages, now house. Late C16, with late C18 or early C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick. Exposed framing with rendered infilling to first floor. Plain tile roof. L-plan: front range of 3 timber-framed bays, that to left longer; rear return wing to left, of 2 timber-framed bays and stack bay. Originally no direct communication between front range and wing on first floor, and apparently none on ground floor. 2 storeys and garret. Continuous jetty to front range, returned to left, and underbuilt in C18 or early c19. Exposed first-floor close-studding of relatively light scantling, with ogee tension brace to left and straight tension brace towards centre. Similar studding to wing, but with brick infilling to ground floor. Front range gabled, left gable with moulded pendant, and plain bargeboards projecting slightly on scrolled brackets. Wing roof hipped to rear. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to front end of wing, and slender projecting red and grey brick stack to right gable end of front range. Irregular fenestration of two paned three-light casements. Similar windows with shallow bracketed hoods to ground floor. Blocked window with pegged cill under eaves to right end of central bay. Left side of wing has one four-light casement and one blocked three-light mullioned window. Two blocked diamond mullion first- floor windows to rear of front range. Central panelled door to front range, with blocked doorway to right of it. Rear lean-to in angle between front range and wing. Interior: exposed framing. Ground floor of front range has off-centre former passage to right half of central bay (behind blocked front door), flanked on left side by chamfered plank-and-muntin partition and on right side by beam morticed for stud partition with possible evidence for pair of doorways towards centre. Axial beam to passage. Right end room has central axial beam morticed for partition. Left end room (orignally 1 1/2 timber-framed bays) has chamfered cross beam and dragon beam. Moulded four-centred-arched stone fireplace with hollow spandrels, and bread oven with iron door, to rear of left bay. Fireback dated 1588 and said to have been uncovered with fireplace. Rear wing has blocked fireplace, chamfered axial beams and bevelled joists. First floor of front range originally had one two-bay room with chamfered beams to left, and one single-bay room to right. Panelled doors. Main range and wing each have clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, windbraces, and no queen struts. Intermediate collars to front range. Formerly known as Kenwood Farm Cottages.
Listing NGR: TQ6922551027
External Links (0)
Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TQ 6926 5100 (point) |
---|---|
Map sheet | TQ65SE |
Civil Parish | YALDING, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Nov 16 2006 1:22PM