Listed Building record TQ 55 NE 175 - GIBBON'S PLACE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1480 to 1936 when moved to current site.

Location

Grid reference TQ 5954 5542 (point)
Map sheet TQ55NE
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish IGHTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 55 NE IGHTHAM TONBRIDGE ROAD 1/11 (east side)
1.8.52 Gibbon's Place (formerly listed as Pump Farm Manor)
II
House. Circa 1500 hall-house with mid-C16 return wing to right, moved to Ightham from Benenden in 1935-36. South side. Red brick plinth. Timber-framed with close-studding and plaster infilling. Plain tiled roof with brick stacks at left-hand end and stack off-ridge to front at right. Mid-C16 return-gabled projection at right, jettied on exposed joists and moulded brackets under first and attic floors. Moulded C16 barge-boards to gable. Two storeys with attic only in gable; irregular fenestration to left of gable, with 3 casements on first floor and 2 on ground floor. Boarded and ribbed door with Tudor-arched surround in original screens-passage position to right. Two oriels on gable and that under first floor jetty very deep. East side. Timber-framed with close-studding and plaster infilling. Two storeys; 2 window first floor, one window ground floor, casements. North side. Gable to left with boarded dloor in Tudor-arched surround below. Garage wing to right with kitchen-yard behind. Interior. C16 fireplace with moulded bressumer in drawing room. Remains of moulded and crenellated dais beam in C20 stair-well as well as crown-post on moulded arched tie-beam. C16 fireplace with chamfered bressumer in dining room.
Listing NGR: TQ5954255429


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

May 12 2011 10:11AM