Lily Vale Farmhouse

LILY VALE FARMHOUSE, LILY VALE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071174
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Lily Vale Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LILY VALE FARMHOUSE, LILY VALE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071174
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Lily Vale Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LILY VALE FARMHOUSE, LILY VALE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LILY VALE FARMHOUSE, LILY VALE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Smeeth
National Grid Reference:
TR 08811 39496

Details

TR 03 NE SMEETH LILY VALE (south side) 4/129 Lily Vale Farmhouse GV II House. C16 or earlier. Clad C18 and extended late C20. Timber framed and clad with ragstone, red and blue brick and tile hanging and extended with red brick and tile hanging. Plain tiled roofs. A lobby entry, or hall house, plan, extended to form L-shape, now with second C20 wing to form rectangular ground plan. Oldest, main range: two storeys and attic on ragstone base with hipped roof with gablets, 3 hipped dormers and stack to rear. Three light, 2 light and 1 light leaded wooden casements on 1st floor, and 2 glazed doors and wooden casement on ground floor. Entrance front: hip end of additional wing and C20 wing, with 6 panelled door with flat hood and sidelights and wooden casement over, with wooden casement and bay window to left in C20 wing. Interior: full frame visible, with beams and posts of large scantling in main range, with arched braced frame, and concave profile gunstock jowls to main posts. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces, possibly an alteration when the separately framed return wing, also with clasped purlin roof, was added; this wing with diamond set wooden mullioned window with shutter grooves, now internal; other window openings with shutter grooves. Inglenooks. Ceiling beams in kitchen with meat hooks.

Listing NGR: TR0881139496

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
181715
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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