Listed Building record TQ 83 NW 43 - LOWLAND FARM HOUSE AND WALLED FORECOURT

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 8142 3979 (point)
Map sheet TQ83NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish FRITTENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
FRITTENDEN SAND LANE TQ 83 NW (south east side)
7/42 Lowland Farm House and walled forecourt II House. C16, altered c.1701 and c.1711. Timber framed and clad with red and blue brick and tile hung on 1st floor, with plain tiled roof. Four framed bay hall house in origin, now lobby entry, with 3 half-hipped rear wings. Two storeys on plinth with hipped roof and with moulded and filleted stack cluster to centre right. Three light and 4 light wooden casements to left on 1st floor and glazing bar sash to right and 2 light, 3 light wooden casements and glazing bar sash on ground floor. Door of 4 raised and fielded panels to centre right with flat cornice hood and open scrolled brackets. Rear wings with early case- ments (are still shuttered). Interior: fully framed,. with inglenooks, four centred arched doorway (to parlour) with indented spandrels. Crown post roof. Extensions rated 1701 and 1711. Walled forecourt, C18. The walls of red brick about 3 feet high and regularly buttressed, running about 15 yards before the house, and some 50 yards along the roadside, with corner piers, and C19 metal gate to centre.
Listing NGR: TQ8142039794


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

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM