Bossenden Farmhouse
BOSSENDEN FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1069142
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bossenden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOSSENDEN FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1069142
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bossenden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOSSENDEN FARMHOUSE, LONDON 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:
- BOSSENDEN FARMHOUSE, LONDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunkirk
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 08829 59657
Details
TR 05 NE DUNKIRK LONDON ROAD (North side)
5/95 Bossenden Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C17 and mid C19. Red brick, in English bond on rear wing, and plain tiled roof. C17 wing with C19 front elevation. Two storeys with corbelled eaves to hipped roof with stack to rear. Regular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes on first floor, 2 on ground floor and central half glazed and panelled door with flat hood on brackets. Rear wing: 2 storeys and half-hipped roof with half-hipped extensions to left and stacks to left and rear centre. Loft doors to left and in extension, and irregular fenestration of glazing bar sash and wood casement. Door of 6 raised and fielded panels to right and boarded doors to left. Single storey service wings attached to left and right, mainly C19, but with extensive evidence of C17 brickwork. Interior: fine moulded beams to interior of C17 wing. John Nichols Thom, alias Sir William Courtenay lodged here prior to the Battle of Bossenden Wood, May 31st 1838, culmination of the Courtenay Riots in which Courtenay (the New Messiah) and 8 followers were shot by the military.
Listing NGR: TR0882959657
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176699
- 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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