Bishops Farm House
BISHOPS FARM HOUSE, PEENS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051669
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bishops Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOPS FARM HOUSE, PEENS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051669
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bishops Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOPS FARM HOUSE, PEENS LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOPS FARM HOUSE, PEENS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boughton Monchelsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77518 48845
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA PEENS LANE TQ 74 NE (South-West side)
2/56 Bishop's Farm House and Bishop's 23.5.67 Cottage (formerly listed as Bishop's Farm House)
GV II
Farmhouse. C17, possibly with earlier core, and with C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in stretcher bond to left, painted brick to right. First floor rendered to left, close-studded under stack and to right. Plain tile roof. Lobby-entry plan of approximately 2 timber-framed bays and central stack bay. Left bay longer than right bay. Parallel rear range to left, extending to left of gable end of main range and possibly of pre-C17 origin. 2 storeys and attic. Gabled. Eaves of left gable jettied on moulded bressumer and shaped brackets. Right gable has projecting wall-plate ends carrying verges with plain bargeboards. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack slightly to right of centre. 2 large close-studded, gabled eaves dormers, each with bargeboards and pendant and jettied on a moulded bressumer, flanking stack bay. Left dormer stops short of left gable end and has shaped brackets and plastered coving under jetty. Single casement to centre of blocked 3-light mullion window to each dormer. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one 3-light C19 casement with top lights to left timber framed bay and one 2-light paned casement to stack bay. Close-studded 2-storey canted bay to right timber-framed bay, with head under jettied dormer, with 8-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor, and with side-lights to first floor. Panelled double doors under stack, within red and grey brick porch with hipped roof. Rear lean-to. Rear range: ground floor red and grey brick on stone plinth, first floor tile-hung. 2 storeys. Gabled to left, with end stack. One 3-light casement to each floor, that to ground floor with segmental head. Boarded door to right end. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7751848845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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