Listed Building record TR 14 SE 101 - PARSONAGE FARMHOUSE
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TR 1817 4476 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR14SE |
County | KENT |
District | FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT |
Civil Parish | ELHAM, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Full Description
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 14 SE ELHAM
NORTH ELHAM 4/43 Parsonage Farmhouse 29.12.66 (formerly listed as Parsonage Farm Cottages)
GV II*
Farmhouse. C13 or earlier, C16, and C17. Left section painted brick. Left gable end red and grey brick in a mixed bond. Right section rendered flint and chalk rubble with broad mortar joints, to undercroft, painted mathematical tiles to first floor. First floor of right gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. C13 or earlier undercroft, first floor above it, comprising two timber-framed bays, rebuilt in C16. Wider C17 addition to left, of two timber-framed bays and gable-end stack bay. 2 storeys, left section taller. Plat band to left section, continuous jetty to right section. Roof of left section gabled to left and right, right section hipped to right. Multiflue brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of left section. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one tripartite sash towards centre of left section and two two-light horizontally-sliding sashes to right section. Ground floor has tripartite sash to left section and one four-pane sash towards left end of right section. Panelled door with flat floating hood to right end of left section. Boarded door with segmental head to left gable end. Right gable end has stone jamb and head of blocked plain-chamfered rectangular window with broach stop, towards centre of undercroft wall. Red and grey brick lean-to to rear of each section, that to left with small single-storey bakehouse (?) projecting back at right-angles. Interior: undercroft has rendered chalk lump walls, springing along front wall for barrel vault, and part of vault soffit to right end. Blocked rectangular stone loop lights, splayed internally, towards right end and centre of front wall of undercroft. Blocked opening to right of centre of rear wall. C16 ceiling with cross and axial beams replaces vault. First floor over undercroft has gunstock- jowled principal posts and sans-purlin common-rafter roof with lapped collars. Right section has chamfered axial beam to ground floor, and aligned butt-purlin roof with collars; some of purlins re-used moulded C16 lengths. Plank door with pin-and-ring hinges. C17 style panelling beside first-floor fireplace. Said to have been owned by Merton College Oxford c.1270-1957.
Listing NGR: TR1819644727 (1)
Formerly TR 14 SE 72.
Historic England archive material: BF039671 Parsonage Farm, North Elham, Elham File contains reports created for the Kent Farmsteads Survey RCH01/050, with the following reference numbers : Parsonage Farm KFS-000029, Stables KFS-000029/1, Granary KFS-000029/2, Wagon Lodge KFS-000029/3, Granary 1 KFS-000029/4 and also includes 7 photocopied external surveyor's 35mm prints. Also included in file are Miniature Format Film Number:116/Y, 134/A RCH01/048/01/340 Labelled sketch plan of the undercroft to Parsonage Farmhouse, Elham
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Historic England, Archive material (Archive). SKE56433.
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Related Events/Activities (1)
- Non-Intrusive Event: Farmstead Survey, Shepway, Elham, North Elham Farmhouse (Ref: KFS-000045) (EKE13857)
Record last edited
Aug 27 2024 4:06PM