Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse
RABBIT'S CROSS FARMHOUSE, LOWER FARM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060770
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- RABBIT'S CROSS FARMHOUSE, LOWER FARM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1060770
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- RABBIT'S CROSS FARMHOUSE, LOWER FARM 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:
- RABBIT'S CROSS FARMHOUSE, LOWER FARM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boughton Monchelsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78514 47381
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA LOWER FARM ROAD TQ 74 NE (South-West side)
2/53 Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse 23.5.67 GV II*
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations. Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden with two roughly equal-length hall bays, and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and attic. Stone plinth to right end bay, brick plinth to rest. Close-studded. Broad, low window-cill to left hall bay. Right and left end bays jettied to front. Arch braces to flying wall-plate and solid-spandrel bracket to central tie-beam end. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Multiple filleted red and grey brick stack in front slope of roof, to left end of right hall bay, and slender brick stack within right lean-to. C17 2 1/2-storey close-studded rectangular bay window on chamfered painted stone base to left hall bay, rising through eaves, with flying wall-plate removed in front of it; gable jettied on shaped brackets, with moulded bressumer and with moulded bargeboards and pendant. Leaded 3-light mullioned window to gable. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; one 8-light mullioned and transomed first-floor window with moulded head and cill to C17 bay, with 2-light mullioned frieze windows to flanking hall walls; and one 2-light paned casement to right end bay. Blocked window to left end bay, and another to right hall bay. Small 4-light mullioned window to left end bay on ground floor, and 2-light paned casement to right end bay. Ground-floor window of C17 bay similar to first-floor, also with 2-light frieze windows. Boarded door in moulded 4-centred arched architrave with hollow spandrels and with brattished moulding to midrail over, to right end of right hall bay. Brick lean-to to right with applied studding to gable. Short rear lean-to to left. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7851447381
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174517
- 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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