Wanstone Farmhouse
WANSTONE FARMHOUSE, UPPER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070032
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wanstone Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WANSTONE FARMHOUSE, UPPER ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09346/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070032
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wanstone Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WANSTONE FARMHOUSE, UPPER 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:
- WANSTONE FARMHOUSE, UPPER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Margaret's At Cliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 35420 43541
Details
TR 34 SE ST MARGARETS AT CLIFFE UPPER ROAD (east side) 6/77 Wanstone Farmhouse
II
House. C15, rebuilt late C17 and extended mid C20. Red brick and flint with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and basement with plat band and corbelled eaves cornice. Lower sections of walls largely of flint with some flint bands, the whole rebuilt with red brick in patches. Stacks to centre left and projecting and offset at end right. Irregular fenestration of wooden casements on each floor, and damaged panelled door to centre right. Interior: much refitting C20,and C17; evidence remains of timber framed house with through passage on present entry line, the partition walls containing 1 four centred arched doorway, and slots for lost door frames on service side. Large, braced vertical timbers also survive in partitions, and in part in wall structure. Fine moulded ceiling joists; inglenook fireplaces. Roof structure renewed. The house is an ancient manorial site, abandoned and ruinous since army occupation W.W.II.
Listing NGR: TR3553444945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178516
- 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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