Gore Farmhouse
GORE FARMHOUSE, GORE FARM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069318
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gore Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GORE FARMHOUSE, GORE FARM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069318
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gore Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORE FARMHOUSE, GORE FARM 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:
- GORE FARMHOUSE, GORE FARM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Upchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 84356 66516
Details
TQ 86 NW UPCHURCH GORE FARM LANE (north side)
1/5 Core Farmhouse
II*
Manor house, now farm. Circa 1400 and mid C16, with C18 additions. Timber framed and tile hung, underbuilt with painted brick with plain tile roof. Hall and cross-wing. Entrance front C16 wing, 2 storeys with hipped roof, centre-right stack, and projecting hipped wing to left with catslide and central stack, Two Gothick traceried casement windows on each floor, and 1 Gothick and 1 ordinary wood casement in left-hand wing. Central board door with gabled porch. Interior: hall-house with traces of medieval stone- work in north west, primitive crown post in chamber, an unmoulded post braced only to collar purlin, smoke-blackened timbers, and C17 inserted floors and stack. Side wing of c. 1540, with moulded crown-posts. Documentary research shows the stones of the C12 manor house sold for repairs to Rochester Castle in 1390's, at which time manor became monastic possession (information from County Archives in hands of owner.)
Listing NGR: TQ8435666516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 176202
- 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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