Gatehouse Farmhouse

GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, HUNTON ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1060666
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, HUNTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1060666
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
23-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Gatehouse Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, HUNTON ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GATEHOUSE FARMHOUSE, HUNTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
Marden
National Grid Reference:
TQ 73582 45965

Details

TQ 74 NW MARDEN HUNTON ROAD (east side)

1/92 Gatehouse Farmhouse (formerly listed 23.5.67 as Gatehouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. C15, with C17 alterations and C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond, first floor tile- hung. Exposed framing with rendered infilling to first floor of left return and to rear gable end of right wing. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 timber-framed bays, with 2-bay cross-wing to left projecting to rear and very slightly to front. Integral cross-wing to right of approximately 2 bays, projecting to rear only. 2 storeys and attic. Exposed framing of relatively thin scantling with straight tension brace to first floor of left return. Broadly-spaced studding with arch braces to rear of right wing. Roof hipped to left and right, hips returning to rear. Flat roof to projecting front of left wing. Dormer to right hip. Slender projecting red and grey brick stack to left gable end, rear brick stack to left, and filleted red and grey brick stack to narrower left hall bay (to junction of hall and left wing). Irregular fenestration of 3 tripartite sashes, one to each wing and one to right hall bay. Blocked doorway under stack. Later extension to rear of left wing. Rear lean-to to hall, with door. Interior: moulded right end-of-hall beam over partition of broadly-spaced studs. Partition above it with central stud and tension braces. Cambered central-truss tie-beam set much lower than wall-plates of wings; hall wall-plates raised in C17 or later. Gunstock-jowled posts to wings. C15 partition with studs, tension braces and plain integral doorway under central tie-beam of left wing. Chamfered C17 axial beam and plain brick fireplace to ground floor of right hall bay. Side-purlin roof with re-used timbers. See also item 1/100.

Listing NGR: TQ7358245965

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
174751
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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