Temple Farmhouse

TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, SINGLEDGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070037
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:
Temple Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, SINGLEDGE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070037
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:
Temple Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, SINGLEDGE 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TEMPLE FARMHOUSE, SINGLEDGE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Dover (District Authority)
Parish:
Whitfield
National Grid Reference:
TR2882445447

Details

TR 24 NE
1/85
27.8.52

TEMPLE EWELL
SINGLEDGE LANE
(south side)

Temple Farmhouse

GV
II

House. C18 and early C19. Painted flint and brick with plain tiled roof two
storeys and attic, the window dressings and quoins picked out originally in
red brick, now all painted over. Stacks projecting at end left and at end right
with 2 hipped dormers. Regular fenestration of 2 sashes and central, glazing
bar sash on first floor, and 2 segmentally headed sashes on ground floor,
with central half-glazed door (originally of 6 raised and fielded panels)
in moulded and panelled surround with rectangular fanlight, pilaster doorcase
and cornice all within mid C20 rendered concrete flat roofed porch, two storey
wing to right with hipped roof and 1 wooden casement on each floor and stack
to right, with 1 storey projecting wing with 1 wooden casement, boarded door,
stack and loft door in end gable. The name of the house is taken from the site
of a preceptory of the Knights Templar in the adjacent field.

Listing NGR: TR2882445447

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
178524
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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