Listed Building record TQ 85 SE 198 - BARN CIRCA 4 YARDS EAST OF FAIRBOURNE MANOR

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1550

Location

Grid reference TQ 8614 5123 (point)
Map sheet TQ85SE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish HARRIETSHAM, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HARRIETSHAM FAIRBOURNE LANE TQ 85 SE (east side)
4/35 Barn circa 4 yards east of Fairbourne Manor
GV II
Barn. 1st half C16. Ground floor very roughly coursed ragstone, first floor tile-hung, plain tile roof. 2 storeys, with hipped roof. 2 very small single-light first-floor casements. Double doors to centre of ground floor. Later lean-to to left, stone on ground floor, weatherboarded first floor. Integral lean-to to left half of rear elevation with stone ground floor. Weatherboarded above, with boarded double doors up 11 concrete steps parallel to rear wall, giving access to first floor. Interior: partly weatherboarded. 4 bays. Rear aisle to left 2 bays only. Only first floor timber-framed. Mid-rail to first floor. Some arch- bracing to walls. Principal posts with gunstock jowls. Aisle posts formerly with passing shores. Arch-braced, slightly cambered tie-beams. Plain crown posts; 2 with 2 braces to collar purlin, and 1 curved brace to tie-beam, one to front, one to rear; one crown post with only one brace, to collar purlin. Grooving suggesting partitioning of aisle from rest of barn.
Listing NGR: TQ8600351130


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

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM