Turkey Farm House
TURKEY FARM HOUSE, GOUDHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060684
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Turkey Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- TURKEY FARM HOUSE, GOUDHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060684
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Turkey Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURKEY FARM HOUSE, GOUDHURST 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.
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:
- TURKEY FARM HOUSE, GOUDHURST 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 73461 44615
Details
TQ 734 446 MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD (west side)
3/44 Turkey Farm House 18.12.86 II Farmhouse, now house. C15 or early C16, partly rebuilt in C17 and with late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish. bond, first floor weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. Late C15 or early C16 right end bay, framed as flush cross-wing, and probably the storeyed right end bay of a former open hall. Rest of house rebuilt in C17 with lobby entry plan of two timber-framed bays flanking stack. 2 storeys and garret on brick plinth. Underbuilt jetty to right side and (present) rear gable end of right cross-wing. Half-hipped roof. Brick ridge stack between central and left end bays, and truncated projecting brick stack to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one three- light to left, two three-light to right, and one single-light beneath stack. Boarded and half-glazed door beneath stack. Lean-to to left gable end and to rear to left. Interior: exposed framing. Chamfered axial beam and joists and plain brick fireplace with bressumer to each C17 ground floor room. Blocked first-floor diamond mullion window to left gable end. Right cross-wing has rear dragon beam to ground floor, first-floor left side partition wall with foot-braced central stud; chamfered posts and wall-plate, and cambered central tie-beam with solid-spandrel braces. C17 clasped- purlin roof over all, with diminishing principal rafters, vertical queen struts to rafters under collar ends, and occasional straight windbraces.
Listing NGR: TQ7346144615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174701
- 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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