Listed Building record TQ 74 SW 88 - GREAT SHEEPHURST FARMHOUSE, Marden

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1766

Location

Grid reference TQ 7253 4383 (point)
Map sheet TQ74SW
Civil Parish COLLIER STREET, MAIDSTONE, KENT
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 74 SW MARDEN BEECH ROAD (south-west side)
3/34 Great Sheephurst Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Early-to-mid C18. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road. Lobby entry plan of 3 timber-framed bays and stack bay; one two-bay room to left of stack and one single-bay room to right. 2 storeys, on rendered plinth. Half-hipped roof. Red and grey brick ridge stack to right of centre. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; one two-light and one three-light to left of stack, and one three-light to right. Ribbed door under open timber-framed porch beneath stack. Single-storey brick addition with gabled plain-tile roof to left, set back from gable end. Two-storey two-bay rear lean- to to right, with painted brick ground floor, tile-hung first floor and slate roof. Single-storey rear lean-to to left. Interior: chamfered cross-beam to left ground-floor room. Exposed framing to first floor, with shouldered gunstock-jowled and shaped jowled posts and straight bracing.
Listing NGR: TQ7341643145


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

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

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Record last edited

Dec 3 2012 11:45AM