Listed Building record TQ 74 SE 151 - BRIDGEHURST FARMHOUSE, Marden

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1667 to 1732

Location

Grid reference TQ 7526 4463 (point)
Map sheet TQ74SE
County KENT
District MAIDSTONE, KENT
Civil Parish MARDEN, MAIDSTONE, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 7544 MARDEN HOWLAND ROAD (north side)
5/80 Bridgehurst Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18. Ground floor red and grey brick in English bond, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret. Brick plinth. Half-hipped roof. Red and grey brick stack to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of 2 three-light casements with top lights. Door with flush panels two top lights and flat bracketed hood immediately to right of stack. Short, lower two-storey addition to left, formerly a dairy, with weatherboarded ground floor, tile-hung first floor, plain tile roof half-hipped to left, and with one three-light casement. Gabled single-storey addition with panelled door to left of that. Three short rear wings, one gabled, two with hipped roofs. Rear lean-to to left. Interior: only partly inspected. Chamfered axial beam. Plain painted brick fireplace with wooden bressumer to right ground-floor room. Attic stairs behind stack. Late C18 open well staircase with vase balusters and plain handrail in rectangular timber-framed stair-turret to rear of stack. Staggered butt purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7526344634


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 3:47PM