Wick Farmhouse
WICK FARMHOUSE, BIDDENDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060869
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WICK FARMHOUSE, BIDDENDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060869
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Wick Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WICK FARMHOUSE, BIDDENDEN 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:
- WICK FARMHOUSE, BIDDENDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Headcorn
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 84617 43715
Details
HEADCORN BIDDENDEN ROAD TQ 84 SW (East side)
7/36 Wick Farmhouse
26.4.68 II
Farmhouse. Mid C15, with C17 and C20 alterations. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Rear wing timber framed, faced with red brick. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with two roughly equal-length hall bays, (that to left subdivided) and storeyed bay to left end. Non-extant storeyed bay to right. Converted to lobby entry plan in C17. 2 storeys and garret. Close studded. Left end bay jettied to front, left gable end, and rear, returning on moulded dragon posts. Left gable end jetty underbuilt. Right end bay formerly jettied at least to front and rear. Arch-braced flying wall-plates to front and rear [rear braces missing). Solid bracket to central tie-beam. Roof hipped to left, with gablet, and half-hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of hall. Projecting brick stack to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 3-light casement to left end bay, one 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window to left hall bay, with 2-light casement adjoining, and one 5-light casement to right hall bay. Boarded door within durns to left end of hall with short moulded, brattished beam over. C17 two-storey rear wing to right with central multiple brick ridge stack. Interior: moulded central crown post on cambered, moulded tie-beam of heavy scantling, with moulded principal posts. Ashlar-pieces. Chamfered collar-purlin. Ogee end-of-hall braces. Close-studded infilling to front and rear, between inner wall-plate and rail just below. Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam. 4-centred arched rear doorway. C17 staircase behind stack with polygonal finial and billet ornamentation to small landing newel post.
Listing NGR: TQ8461743715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174261
- 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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