Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall

Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall, Lower Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1069261
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall
Statutory Address:: Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall, Lower Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1069261
Date first listed:: 27-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:: Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall
Statutory Address 1:: Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall, Lower Road

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Location

Statutory Address:: Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall, Lower Road

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County:: Kent
District:: Swale (District Authority)
Parish:: Teynham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 94840 63391

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 96 SW 2/162

TEYNHAM LOWER ROAD (south side) Frognal Farmhouse and Garden Wall

27.8.52

GV II*

House, now residential home. C16, 1668 for Ralph Clerke, early C18 for Sir Joseph Taylor. Rear range timber framed and exposed with painted brick and plaster infill and part clad with red brick, front range of brick work. Plain tiled roofs. Four bay late medieval hall house in moated site remodelled 1668 with parallel range added to east early C18.

Front range: two storeys attic and basement on plinth with plat band projecting centre piece with coved top, and moulded modillion eaves cornice to roof, half hipped to left with parapet with central segment headed dormer and flat C20 dormer to right, and kneelered gable and stack to right. Regular fenestration of five C20 glazing bar sashes in box surrounds on first floor and four on ground floor with segmental heads. Central door of six raised and fielded panels and two glazed panels at head of flight of three steps with sweeping iron rails, with pilaster surround and scrolled pediment on consoles. Basement openings to left.

Rear Range: two storeys and four gables withbressummers carved with billet mould, crenellation, and vine motifs, that centre left dated 1668; end left with part painted circular bracing. Three stacks. Rebuilt porch to left initialled: N. G.

Interior: the porch in rear range leads into old screens passage, with two arched doorways to service area; possible remodelled crown post roof. Early C18 stair case, four flights around open well (complicated by C20 fire screens), with wreathed and moulded handrail, and turned balusters, and banded pendants and finials. Wall to road to east of house, of red brick in English bond, four foot in height, swept down twice to east of house, on plinth, extending approximately 30 yards.

[see BOE, Kent II, 1983, 475, E Selby, Teynham Manor and Hundred, 1982, 39]

Listing NGR: TQ9484063391

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Legacy System number:: 176371
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.