Listed Building record TQ 74 SW 62 - LOVES FARMHOUSE, Marden

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1986

Location

Grid reference TQ 7364 4188 (point)
Map sheet TQ74SW
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish MARDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 74 SW MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD (west side)
3/53 Loves Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, partly rebuilt c.1726. Restored, with addition to right, 1986. Timber-framed core. Front elevation red and grey brick in Flemish bond. First floor of left gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Storeyed C15 or early C16 cross-wing of 2 timber- framed bays, to left. Addition or, probably, rebuilding to right, of one timber-framed bay and stack bay, flush with front gable end of wing. 2 storeys, on chamfered brick plinth. Boxed eaves. Wing roof hipped to front and rear, hips returning to right along C18 bays. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre. Regular 3-window front of two three-light and central two-light casements. Ribbed door with flat corniced hood under stack. Single-bay brick addition of 1986 to right end. Stack dated A . Interior: exposed framing to first I M 1726 floor of wing, with tension braces, gunstock-jowled posts, chamfered wall-plates and tie-beams and chamfered cambered central tie-beam with solid-spandrel arch braces, moulded fillet and formerly with crown post. Chamfered cross-beam to ground floor. Axial beams of smaller scantling to right section. Ground-floor fireplaces with rendered brick jambs and wooden bressumers.
Listing NGR: TQ7364741881


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

Sep 3 2009 3:50PM