Hurst Farmhouse
HURST FARMHOUSE, MOUNTAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1071283
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Hurst Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HURST FARMHOUSE, MOUNTAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1071283
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Hurst Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HURST FARMHOUSE, MOUNTAIN STREET
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:
- HURST FARMHOUSE, MOUNTAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chilham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 06659 51824
Details
TR 05 SE CHILHAM MOUNTAIN STREET (south end)
4/20 Hurst Farmhouse
27.11.57 I
Hall House. C14 hall with C15 cross wing. Timber framed, close studded to cross-wing, with painted plaster and brick infill, flint plinth, and plain tile roof. C14 range: 2 storey with attic. Large irregular frame, gabled roof with 1 C20 roof light, large ridge stack centre right, and stack to rear right, behind C19 1 window extension. 2 C20 wood casements, 1 either side of C19 4 panelled door to centre right. C15 cross-wing: 2 storeys on basement. First floor jetty on all 3 sides, with moulded dragon posts. Hipped roof with gablet and projecting offset stack to left. 1 wooden casement to each floor, and single light to basement. Entrance: Large C14 or C13 rubble porch in re-entrant angle. Buttressed and repaired in brick, double chamfered arch, mutilated chamfered jambs with possible stiff- leaf capitals. C15 arched plank door. Interior: 2 bay semi-aisled hall of C14 with base-crucks. Arched bracing to screens and dais-end tie beams. Doubled bracing to trusses and scissor trusses. Secondary roof system of C15 date of crown- post collar-purlin roof with moulded cap and base to octagonal crown post. Collar-purlin roof over solar end. Inserted floor over hall, inscribed 1704 on one joist. Large mounted stack, bread ovens and 2 C19 coppers.
Listing NGR: TR0665951824
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181465
- 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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