Listed Building record TQ 84 NE 49 - KNOWLE HILL FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1550 to 1866

Location

Grid reference TQ 8588 4926 (point)
Map sheet TQ84NE
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish ULCOMBE, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
ULCOMBE KNOWLE HILL TQ 84 NE Knowle Hill 6/185 Farmhouse (formerly listed as 26.4.68 Knowle Hill Fruit Farmhouse) II
Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, with early-to-mid C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor clad with small blocks of evenly coursed stone with brick dressings, first floor with red brick in Flemish bond. Tile-hanging and exposed framing to rear elevation. Plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Roof hipped to left. Slender brick stack to left end and broad multiple brick ridge stack with corbelled top, off-centre to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; three 16-pane glazing-bar sashes of different sizes, and one tripartite sash, all in open boxes. Ground floor windows have segmental relieving arches. Boarded door towards left end and half-glazed door beneath stack, the latter up 7 steps, both with flat bracketted hoods. Brick lean-to to left. Stone lean-to to right incorporating re-used durns. Right gable end has braces curved beneath rafters to suggest wagon roof. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8588349262


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM