Listed Building record TQ 65 SW 227 - Court Lodge Farm

Summary

Court Lodge Farm, West Pekham. Lord Torrington's model farm c. 1840s. Model farms were architect-designed farmsteads inspired by the ideals of Enlightenment that combined utility with architectural beauty.

Location

Grid reference TQ 6438 5245 (point)
Map sheet TQ65SW
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish WEST PECKHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 SW WEST PECKHAM THE GREEN (south side)
1/77 Planned Farmyard at Court lodge Farm including apple store to south with subsidiary buildings and barn with outbuildings and two oasthouses to south.
II
Planned farmyard. Circa 1840, Pagstone rubble with plain tiled roofs. Rectangular plan with low ranges of byres, workshops, stables and wagon sheds with two oast-Roundels to north-west attached to cart-shed with stowage over. Between the two southern arms a single storey piggery and to south, a two-storey timber-framed and weatherboarded barn, attached to the lower side arms and open at the sides of the ends as cart entrances. Northern block of cattle lodge, originally for 53 head of cattle and nine calves, now cattle lodge. Central northern entrance with flanking 1½-storey blocks of Turnip House with Cake Room area to East and Hay and Chaff Room with granary over to West, flanked by single- storey blocks of Boiling House to East and Straw barn to west. Entrances to yard between barn and cattle lodge to east and west. Built for Lord Torrington, (lie yard was illustrated as an exemplary farm plan in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 1845, in an article on 'Farming in Kent'.
Listing NGR: TQ6437752420


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

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Jan 29 2025 1:24PM