Listed Building record TR 14 NW 110 - COURTHOPE FARM

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1567 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TR 1472 4625 (point)
Map sheet TR14NW
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish LYMINGE, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 NW LYMINGE MILL LANE (south-west side)
Stelling Minnis
1/161 Courthope Farm
II
Farmhouse. Late C16, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed. Facade red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. 3 timber-framed bays and stack bay. 2 storeys and attic. Hipped roof. Large brick ridge stack extending into front slope of roof, towards right end. Dormer to right hip. Irregular fenestration of 4 two-light casements; three to left and one to right of stack. Ribbed door under second first-floor window from left, and blocked door with segmental head to right end. Brick lean-to to right gable end and 1987 brick lean-to to left. Rendered single-storey C19 addition to rear with hipped plain tile roof. Interior: renewed joists to left ground-floor room, but evidence for underbuilt jetty to rear. Fragment of four-centred-arched doorhead with hollow spandrels and roll-moulding towards front of partition between left and central rooms. Central ground-floor room has chamfered axial beam and chamfered beam across stack, both with fleur-de-lys chamfer stops. Shaped bracket under left end of axial beam. Unchamfered joists. Brick fireplace with herringbone brick back and four-centred-arched roll- moulded bressumer with hollow spandrels carved with leaf spears. Right ground-floor room has beam across stack, and chamfered axial beam. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer and bread oven extending to front wall. Cambered axial tie-beam with short solid-spandrel braces to left first-floor room. Central tension-braced stud to right gable end. Exposed framing. Clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters and deep collars.
Listing NGR: TR1512841576


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

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2014 12:24PM