Listed Building record TQ 74 NE 102 - BARN ABOUT 70 METRES WEST OF SWEETLANDS FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1799

Location

Grid reference TQ 7849 4538 (point)
Map sheet TQ74NE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish STAPLEHURST, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
STAPLEHURST COUCHMAN GREEN TQ 74 NE LANE (East side)
2/81 Barn about 70 metres west of Sweetlands Farmhouse
II
Barn. C16 or earlier. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays, built at right-angles to road. Left (south-west) end bay partitioned from rest, probably originally, and floored. Hipped roof. Single door to left end. Full-height double doors to third bay from left. C17 or C18 porch to (present) rear of same bay, with boarded sides, hipped plain tile roof and full-height double doors. Later rear lean-to, flush with porch. Interior: shouldered gunstock-jowled principal posts. Cambered tie- beams, those flanking midstrey with ogee arch braces. Plain crown- posts with head braces and an irregular provision of foot braces. First truss from left end has pegged cross-beam between principal posts, with central stud and arch braces pegged between it and tie- beam and with evidence for infilling. Further pegged stud towards rear, rebated to floored side for doorway between it and rear principal post. Cross-beam morticed for closely-spaced joists of relatively large scantling to left side. Arch-bracing to walls throughout. Part of one wall retains plastered stave, straw and lath infilling above midrail. Evidence for narrower rear doorway which pre-dated porch. Sweetlands Farmhouse not listed.
Listing NGR: TQ7848045411


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