Wanshurst
WANSHURST, BATTLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060709
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wanshurst
- Statutory Address:
- WANSHURST, BATTLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060709
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wanshurst
- Statutory Address 1:
- WANSHURST, BATTLE 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:
- WANSHURST, BATTLE LANE
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 76351 45286
Details
TQ 74 NE MARDEN BATTLE LANE (east side)
2/8 Wanshurst
GV II Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 or early C17 with C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Lobby entry plan, with approximately one timber-framed bay to left and three to right of stack bay, those to right apparently divided to form a single-bay room immediately to right of stack and a two-bay room to right end. 2 storeys, on low brick plinth. Half-hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one four-light to left, one small three-light under stack, one three-light to right and one four-light to right end. Three-light diamond mullion first-floor rear window to right. Ribbed door in gabled brick porch under stack. Rear lean-to to left. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Chamfered axial beam, and brick fireplace in English bond with wooden bressumer, to room to right of stack. Chamfered cross- beam and broadly-chamfered joists to right end room. Formerly known as Wanshurst Green.
Listing NGR: TQ7635145286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174664
- 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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