Bletchingly Farmhouse
BLETCHINGLY FARMHOUSE, PRISTLING LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060697
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bletchingly Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BLETCHINGLY FARMHOUSE, PRISTLING LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060697
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bletchingly Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLETCHINGLY FARMHOUSE, PRISTLING 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:
- BLETCHINGLY FARMHOUSE, PRISTLING LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Staplehurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77085 41622
Details
STAPLEHURST PRISTLING LANE TQ 74 SE (South side)
3/166 Bletchingly Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C16 or early C17, with early-to-mid C19 facade and with alterations of c.1911. Facade red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys, on chamfered brick plinth. Gabled. Projecting brick stack to left gable end. Late C16 or early C17 red and grey brick stack in English bond projecting from right side of rear left wing towards junction with main range; 3 star-shaped brick flues set on broad shouldered and moulded brick plinth. Tall brick stack to right of centre. Regular 4-window front of recessed 12-pane sashes with cambered heads. One similar sash to left end of ground floor, and 2 tripartite sashes, also with cambered heads. Single-storey brick porch of c.1911 under stack, beneath second window from right, with plain parapet with moulded painted coping, and with clasping pilasters with ball finials rising just above parapet. Panelled door with cambered head, flanked by 2 paned lights. Short rear return wing to left, extended in c.1911. Short gabled rear wing to right, of c.1911. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7708541622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174636
- 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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