Loves Farmhouse
LOVES FARMHOUSE, GOUDHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060688
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Loves Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOVES FARMHOUSE, GOUDHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060688
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Loves Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOVES FARMHOUSE, 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:
- LOVES FARMHOUSE, 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 73647 41881
Details
TQ 74 SW MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD (west side)
3/53 Loves Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, partly rebuilt c.1726. Restored, with addition to right, 1986. Timber-framed core. Front elevation red and grey brick in Flemish bond. First floor of left gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Storeyed C15 or early C16 cross-wing of 2 timber- framed bays, to left. Addition or, probably, rebuilding to right, of one timber-framed bay and stack bay, flush with front gable end of wing. 2 storeys, on chamfered brick plinth. Boxed eaves. Wing roof hipped to front and rear, hips returning to right along C18 bays. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre. Regular 3-window front of two three-light and central two-light casements. Ribbed door with flat corniced hood under stack. Single-bay brick addition of 1986 to right end. Stack dated A . Interior: exposed framing to first I M 1726 floor of wing, with tension braces, gunstock-jowled posts, chamfered wall-plates and tie-beams and chamfered cambered central tie-beam with solid-spandrel arch braces, moulded fillet and formerly with crown post. Chamfered cross-beam to ground floor. Axial beams of smaller scantling to right section. Ground-floor fireplaces with rendered brick jambs and wooden bressumers.
Listing NGR: TQ7364741881
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174710
- 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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