Listed Building record TQ 55 NE 175 - GIBBON'S PLACE
Summary
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)
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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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
May 12 2011 10:11AM