Listed Building record TQ 74 NW 161 - MOCKBEGGAR FARM HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1866

Location

Grid reference TQ 7145 4690 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NW
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:
YALDING TQ 74 NW Collier Street 4/80 Mockbeggar Farm House GV II
Farmhouse. C17 with later alterations, and with early-to-mid C19 front range. Timber framed, with weatherboarding to gable ends. Rear left wing weather- boarded to left side, gable end brick on ground floor, tile-hung above. Rear right wing red and grey brick to ground floor, tile-hung above. Front range red brick in Flemish bond, first floor of each gable end hung with fishscale tiles. Plain tile roofs. 2 timber-framed bays, that to left slightly longer, and subdivided by intermediate posts. Short timber-framed rear return wing or turret to left. Slightly shorter but broader timber-framed rear return wing to right. Rear lean-to between the two wings. Parallel front range extending slightly further to right. Each range 2 storeys, gabled. Stone plinth to rear right wing. Wings gabled to rear. Rear left wing possibly has underbuilt first-floor gable-end jetty. Slightly-projecting brick gable-end stacks to both ranges. Regular 3-window front to front range, of recessed four-pane sashes with segmental heads. Tripartite sashes to ground floor, also with segmental heads. Central panelled door with leaded rectangular fanlight. Interior: timber-framed section has gunstock jowls of relatively heavy scantling to left end, to central truss of C17 range, and to gable end of left wing. Reversed assembly to front right corner (unless right end bay is part of right wing). Unjowled posts towards centre of left bay. Chamfered cross and axial beams. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7145746903


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 12:12PM