The Old Barn
The Old Barn, Lower Street, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, TN11 8PT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070436
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Barn
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Barn, Lower Street, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, TN11 8PT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070436
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Barn, Lower Street, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, TN11 8PT
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:
- The Old Barn, Lower Street, Hildenborough, Tonbridge, TN11 8PT
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:
- TQ 54609 48168
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 July 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 54 NW
4/146
HILDENBOROUGH
LOWER STREET (south side)
The Old Barn
(Formerly listed as Barn about 40m north east of Lower Street Farmhouse)
GV
II
Barn. Probably late C17. Framed construction, clad in weatherboarding; rear outshut wall rebuilt in brick; peg-tile roof.
Plan: North facing, slightly set back from the road and sited north west of the farmhouse. Rectangular on plan, five bays, with opposed threshing doors and rear outshuts.
Exterior: Single storey with a later loft introduced at the east end. Roof half-hipped at the right end, gabled at the left end. Full-height paired doors in the centre.
Interior: The rear outshuts are divided from the main part of the barn by weatherboarded partitions. Straight braces to the wall-frame bays.
Roof: Tie beam and queen strut roof with staggered butt purlins, the tie beams supported on jowled wall posts with braces between post and tie.
Group value with Lower Street farmhouse, which is in separate ownership.
Listing NGR: TQ5433948339
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179581
- 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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