Listed Building record TQ 55 SE 121 - STABLE BUILDING 20 YARDS TO EAST OF IGHTHAM MOTE

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 55 SE IGHTHAM MOTE ROAD 3/13 (east side)
Stable Building 20 yds to east of Ightham Mote
II
Stables. Late C19, possibly by R N Shaw. Coursed and galletted rubble stone with red brick dressings. Timber with plaster infill and decorated bargeboards to gables. Plain tile roof. L-plan with roofs at different height. Lean-to shelter at angle, protecting coach-house doors. West gable has pigeon-loft with pentice over. South wing has central stable door with subsidiary door to right and 3-light lattice casement to left. Bird-house in apex of gable on south wing. Further lean-to to south also with decorated bargeboards.
Listing NGR: TQ5847253484 (1)

The historic building survey of Ightham Mote farm buildings concluded that they comprise an inverted U-plan series of brick buildings in three linked ranges arranged around a central courtyard with an earlier stone building occupying the southwestern corner of the site. With the exception of the 18th century stone structure, the buildings represent a designed farmstead. Originally there had been a fourth range just south of the centre of the farmyard which was demolished in the mid 20th century.
They are significant architecturally as the brick ranges were designed as a group utilising the same materials and architectural details throughout. The nature and position of the buildings is suggestive of the period of High Farming.(2)

<2> Archaeology South-East, 2007, Mote Farm, Ightham, Kent: Interpretive Historic Building Survey (Unpublished document). SKE15662.