Listed Building record TR 14 SW 115 - KINGSMILL DOWN FARMHOUSE AND HORSEWHEEL ADJACENT

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1906

Location

Grid reference TR 1052 4397 (point)
Map sheet TR14SW
District ASHFORD, KENT
Civil Parish HASTINGLEIGH, ASHFORD, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 14 SW HASTINGLEIGH KINGSMILL DOWN
5/78 Kingsmill Down Farmhouse and Horsewheel adjacent
GV II
House. C16, extended C17 and C18. Timber framed core, much extended with red brick, (partly in English bond) and some flint and rubble to rear. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys on plinth with roof hipped to left, with stacks at end right and projecting at end left. Two margin light sashes on each floor, those on ground floor with segmental heads. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels with lozenge - traceried rectangular fanlight and segmental iron hood. Right return 2 storey, rendered, with steeply pitched hipped roof and metal casement windows, all of slightly different pattern. Central boarded door. Flint and rubble outshot and rear wing. Interior: the kitchen wing (right return) with interior frame visible, with wattle and daub/lathe and plaster interior walls. Truncated clasped purlin and wind brace roof (possibly a cross-wing to main range). Some simple mid C18 panelling and raised and fielded and moulded doors (fine front door with diagonal planks, strap hinges, etc.). Simple straight flight stair, but upper landing with short mid C18 dog leg stair with turned baluster with square knaps, moulded handrail and extended newels, effecting change of levels between different builds. The internal divisions, partitions and specialised storage and processing rooms (pantry/washhouse etc.) largely survive, with a remaining kitchen copper, the flint bakehouse outshot dateable by its oven (now dismantled) to 1781. Adjoining to the south a mid C18 donkey wheel with vertical post to drum, with iron bucket. The timbered housing with tiled roof rebuilt in 1906, with moulded timbers of good scantling.
Listing NGR: TR1053043974


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM