Listed Building record TQ 64 SE 145 - BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF PORTOBELLO

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1939

Location

Grid reference TQ 6783 4192 (point)
Map sheet TQ64SE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish BRENCHLEY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY HIGH STREET, BRENCHLEY (north side) 15/92 Barn about 20m east of Portobello
GV II
Barn. Probably early C18 and contemporary with the main building phase of Portobello, the west end rebuilt in the early C19 to present a more polite and less agircultural facade to the garden. Framed construction, clad in weatherboarding, west end rebuilt in Flemish bond brick; peg-tile roof.
Plan: A 3-bay barn built on an east west axis, the west end overlooking the garden to the rear of Portobello; probably later outshut on the south side, present entrance on the south side into the end bay.
Exterior: Single-storey. The west end is tile-hung at the apex above a clock face in a moulded stone frame with vermiculated spandrels. The outshut has 5 C19 fixed iron frame windows with small panes; probably C20 4-light casement on the north side with square leaded panes. Weathervane on west end apex dated 1939.
Interior: Wall framing of light scantling with diagonal braces off the wall posts. Tie-beam roof construciton with queen posts and clasped purlins, the ties on jowled wallposts, with straight braces from post to tie.
Group value with Portobello, the rebuilt west end of the barn makes a special contribution to the setting of the house.
Listing NGR: TQ6783941920


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM