Listed Building record TQ 64 SW 100 - CHALKET FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1990

Location

Grid reference TQ 6241 4027 (point)
Map sheet TQ64SW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish PEMBURY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 62 40 PEMBURY CHALKET LANE
13/354 Chalket Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Early C17, thoroughly modernised with extensions circa 1980. Timber-framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with brick, mostly circa 1980 stretcher bond but the west end is possibly C18 Flemish bond red brick with burnt headers. The framing above is weatherboarded. Brick stack with staggered chimneyshaft and the lower section of the shaft is original brick. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: Farmhouse built across the hillslope. The main block faces south. Originally it had a 3-room lobby entrance plan but original entrance has been blocked. Large axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces between the centre room (probably the original kitchen) and the left (west) end parlour. Unheated right end room was originally for service use, such as buttery or pantry. Partition between this service room and the centre room has been removed and circa 1980 a 2-storey service extension was built behind the right end.
Main house is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and lean-to outshots rear left.
Exterior: Irregular 3-window front, all circa 1980 casements with rectangular pane leaded pane effect, and 2 contemporary ground floor French windows. Similar windows round the other sides including the rebuilt oriel window in the left (west) end. This left end is jettied at first floor level but the jetty bressummer is hidden. The right end is jettied on first and attic floor levels. The lower jetty bressummer is hidden but the upper one is exposed; it is moulded and brattished and supported on ornamental oak consoles. Main roof is gable-ended and contains 3 front gabled dormer windows.
Interior: The larger rooms (both floors) have chamfered axial beams with scroll stops and fireplaces have oak lintels with chamfered low Tudor arches. The centre room fireplace includes large blocks of sandstone ashlar. Roof somewhat mended in the C20 but preserves the substantial remains of the original clasped side purlin roof structure.
Listing NGR: TQ6241740279


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