Carthorse Stable at Rumshed Farm

CARTHORSE STABLE AT RUMSHED FARM

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070381
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:
Carthorse Stable at Rumshed Farm
Statutory Address:
CARTHORSE STABLE AT RUMSHED FARM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1070381
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:
Carthorse Stable at Rumshed Farm
Statutory Address 1:
CARTHORSE STABLE AT RUMSHED FARM

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

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:
CARTHORSE STABLE AT RUMSHED FARM

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
Parish:
Hildenborough
National Grid Reference:
TQ5511851780

Details

HILDENBOROUGH UNDERRIVER
TQ 55 SE
2/215 Carthorse stable at Rumshed
Farm

GV II

Carthorse stable. Circa mid C19, C20 repairs. Framed construction, clad with
weatherboarding; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Simple rectangular plan on a west east axis, facing north. The west
end wall has been rebuilt in concrete block.

Exterior: Single-storey with 4 stable doors on the front (north) and a window
in the centre. Roof half-hipped at ends.

Interior: The original stall partitions survive with the names of the horses
painted on the rear wall which is matchboarded - Prince, Duke, Darling, Dolly,
etc.

Roof: Jowelled wallposts support a clasped purlin queen post roof with a
ridgeboard. The roof has suffered from racking and has been repaired.

Part of a good farmstead group at Rumshed Farm, formerly called St Julian's
Farm. The parish and district boundaries run through the farmhouse, part of
which is in Sevenoaks parish.


Listing NGR: TQ5511851780

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
179649
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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