Listed Building record TQ 53 NW 74 - HOLLONDS FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1800 to 1899

Location

Grid reference TQ 5422 3911 (point)
Map sheet TQ53NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish SPELDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (east side), LANGTON GREEN 7/490 Hollonds Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse. Early C19 with late C19 extension. The older part is sandstone rubble laid to rough courses with stone ashlar dressings and first floor of porch is exposed timber framing. Late C19 extension in same masonry style but larger, more neatly dressed sandstone blocks are used. Brick stacks and chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof (formerly thatch according to the farmer).
Plan: 3-room lobby entrance plan house facing north onto The Green. Axial stack set more to rear between left and centre rooms. Lobby entrance in front behind 2-storey porch. This was the original house. The right (west) end room with its rear lateral stack is the late C19 extension.
2 storeys.
Exterior: Front has a 1:2-window front at ground floor level with the only first floor window on the porch. This last one is a C20 casement with no glazing bars. The ground floor ones are late C19 casements with glazing bars (similar windows each end). Front doorway left of centre contains a plank door and set behind the 2 storey porch. Porch is-stone at ground floor level with a full width elliptical arch of plain sandstone ashlar. Framed first floor jettied a little forward and gable has plain bargeboards with apex finial (same on gable ends of the main block). Main block has a projecting flat stone band at first floor level.
Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey.
Hollands Farmhouse was presumably built as the home farm belonging to the Decimus Burton house, Hollonds (q.v.) which stands close by. It also forms part of a group with the attractive buildings around The Green.
Listing NGR: TQ5422739119


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