Listed Building: MOUNT CASTLE FARM COTTAGE (1116450)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 293, 5, 189
Date assigned 14 December 1984
Date last amended

Description

LENHAM LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD TQ 95 SW 5/189 Mount Castle Farm Cottage II House. Late C15 with C16, C17 and C19 alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation, part of first floor, part of rear and left gable clad or rebuilt in galleted ragstone with dressings of thin red bricks. Exposed studding to first floor with C19 red brick infilling. Left gable end part red brick in Flemish bond, gable with occasional grey headers. Plain tile roof it bays of open hall, with storeyed bay to right end. Left end truncated. 2 storeys, with broadly-spaced studding. Roof hipped to right. C19 red and grey brick stack in left gable end. One 2-light C19 casement on ground floor to left of door. Boarded door with seg- mental head up 3 steps towards centre. Datestone TB in left gable 1646 end, probably reset. Interior: Moulded dais beam with mortice for spear. Moulded crown-post on cambered tie-beam with mortices for large braces. C17 inserted floor. Inserted stud and plaster partition above central tie-beam of open hall, smoke blackened one side; remains of a smoke bay, probably C16 or early C17. Exposed beams and posts. Listing NGR: TQ9133050300

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 9090 5041 (point)
Map sheet TQ95SW
Civil Parish LENHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 1:22PM