Cottons Farmhouse
COTTONS FARMHOUSE, CHICKENDEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060740
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cottons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- COTTONS FARMHOUSE, CHICKENDEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060740
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cottons Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTONS FARMHOUSE, CHICKENDEN 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:
- COTTONS FARMHOUSE, CHICKENDEN 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 80161 43877
Details
STAPLEHURST CHICKENDEN LANE TQ 84 SW (North side)
4/74 23.5.67 Cottons Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. C15, with later alterations. C16 or early C17 rear wing. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 roughly equal-length timber-framed bays, that to left subdivided with cross-passage to left. Storeyed end bays. 2 storeys. Rendered plinth. Gable end jetties. Close-studded, with higher midrail to right hall bay, and pegs for broad window-cill to same bay. Hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick stack to left end of left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 3-light casement to left end bay, one 2-light casement to each hall bay, and one 4- light diamond mullion window to right end. Pegged cill for mullioned window to left end. Ribbed door in moulded 4-centred-arched architrave, with head higher than midrail, to left end of hall. Short C16 two-bay timber-framed rear wing to left, gabled and tile-hung on first floor. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded right end-of-hall beam, morticed for spear towards rear end and grooved for boarded partition. Right end room morticed for axial subdivision. Doubly-chamfered central truss posts, with hollow-chamfered arch braces to tie-beam. Moulded octagonal crown-post. Ogee braces to left end-of-hall partition. Moulded 4-centred-arched stone fireplace.
Listing NGR: TQ8011843894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174540
- 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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