Great Bower Farmhouse
GREAT BOWER FARMHOUSE, SHOTTENDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1071242
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Great Bower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT BOWER FARMHOUSE, SHOTTENDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1071242
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Great Bower Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT BOWER FARMHOUSE, SHOTTENDEN 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:
- GREAT BOWER FARMHOUSE, SHOTTENDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Molash
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 03408 52939
Details
TR 05 SW MOLASH SHOTTENDEN ROAD (east side)
3/39 Great Bower Farmhouse (formerly listed as 27.11.57 Bower Farmhouse)
II*
Hall house. C15 and C16 and C19 wing. Timber framed on flint plinth, exposed to rear, entrance front clad in red brick and tile hung with plain tile roof. Two storeys and attic with skylight, hip and gablets and stacks to rear right and centre left. Four C19 sash windows on first floor, 3 on ground floor, and 4 panelled door in sloping porch to right. C19 red brick wing to right. Rear elevation: 2 projecting close-studded timber framed wings, central panel-framed hall, all exposed with plaster infill. Interior: wooden newel staircase with wall paintings of flowers and costumed figures dated c. 1560, fragments of painting elsewhere on beams and panelling. Fire- place of c 1500 with roll moulded jambs and shield and heart- leaved tongues in spandrels. Partially exposed carved satyr- like figure on otherwise bricked-over mantle in Hall. Crown post roof with tall (3 foot) octagonal moulded posts.
Listing NGR: TR0340852939
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181571
- 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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