Listed Building record TQ 56 NW 138 - WESTED FARM BARN INCLUDING CHAFF HOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Wested Farm Barn including Chaff House. The batn was built in the late 17th-early 18th century and the chaff house was added in the mid 18th century. Aisled timber framed barn with the exterior clad in 20th century brickwork in Sussex bond and a steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof. The building has an L-shaped range of 6 by 8 bays with two hipped waggon entrances.The chaff house is a four bay addition to the north.

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Grid reference TQ 5174 6682 (point)
Map sheet TQ56NW
County KENT
Civil Parish CROCKENHILL, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District SEVENOAKS, KENT

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TQ 56 NE 2/235

EYNSFORD ROAD, CROCKENHILL

Wested Farm Barn including Chaff House

GV II

Barn and chaff house. Barn late C17 or early C18, chaff house did C18. Aisled timber barn, the exterior clad in C20 brickwork in Sussex bond with steeply pitched corrugated asbestos roof. L shaped range of 6 x 8 bays. 2 hipped waggon entrances. Interior has heterogeneous upright posts mainly jowled and with chamfered edges and typically C18 profile. Angled queen strut roof with staggered purlins and original pegged rafters. Midstrey bay has windbraces and curved windbraces to the upright posts in the wall plate. Easternmost bays have C20 inserted floor. Chaff House is mid C18 addition of 4 bays to north. Through purlins, angled queen posts and upright posts with cut profile jowls. Pegged rafters without ridgepiece. Diagonal windbraces. C20 floor inserted without disturbing structural elements.

Listing NGR: TQ5174566820 . (1)

Historic England archive material: BF104176 Wested Farm, Crockenhill Lane, Eynsford File contains reports created for the Kent Farmsteads Survey RCH01/050, with the following reference numbers : Wested Farm KFS-000063, Barn KFS-000063/1 and also includes 6 photocopied external surveyor's 35mm prints.


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey (EKE19937)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: Farmstead Survey,Wested Farm, Crockenhill Lane, Eynsford (Ref: KFS-000063) (EKE13827)

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Oct 20 2025 2:24PM