Old Newstead
OLD NEWSTEAD, COUCHMAN GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060743
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Newstead
- Statutory Address:
- OLD NEWSTEAD, COUCHMAN GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060743
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Newstead
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD NEWSTEAD, COUCHMAN GREEN 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:
- OLD NEWSTEAD, COUCHMAN GREEN 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 79281 45092
Details
STAPLEHURST COUCHMAN GREEN TQ 74 NE LANE (East side)
2/83 Old Newstead
II
Farmhouse, now house. C16 or earlier, with early C17 and late C18 additions and alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond, first floor tile-hung. Both floors of left end bay tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Open hall, possibly with one storeyed end-bay missing, running east-west. Early C17 addition of approximately 2 timber-framed bays, running south from west end. Late C18 single bay addition to south end of C17 section. East elevation: south wing 2 storeys and garret, east wing 2 storeys. Slightly higher eaves and ridge to south wing, with half- hipped roof to south end. East wing gabled and weatherboarded to east. Red and grey brick stack in English bond to rear (west) of C18 addition. Multiple red and grey brick stack in rear (west) slope of roof of C17 section towards junction with earlier range. Irregular fenestration of 5 windows; two 3-light casements to south wing, one flanked by 4-light wood mullion windows with diamond subsidiary mullions. One 2-light casement to east wing. Boarded door towards centre of south wing. Lean-to to east gable end of east wing. 2-storey addition to north side of east wing, with rendered ground floor, tile-hung first floor, gabled plain-tile roof and one 3-light casement. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as Newstead Farm. Formerly a moated site.
Listing NGR: TQ7928145092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174549
- 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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