Fairthorne House
FAIRTHORNE HOUSE, TONBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074936
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fairthorne House
- Statutory Address:
- FAIRTHORNE HOUSE, TONBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074936
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fairthorne House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIRTHORNE HOUSE, TONBRIDGE 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:
- FAIRTHORNE HOUSE, TONBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pembury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 61397 43081
Details
TQ 64 PEMBURY TONBRIDGE ROAD
5/426 Fairthorne House 14.10.87 II
Former farmhouse. C17 and C18, some C19 and C20 modernisation. Timber- framed. Ground floor is underbuilt with painted brick. Exposed framing above but tile-hung to rear. Secondary rear block is red brick with tile-hung framing at first floor level. Main stack has coursed sandstone base, brick above with brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: Basically an L-plan house. Main block faces north and has a 3-room plan. The left (east) end room is recessed from the main front. The main parlour at the right end has a projecting rear lateral stack. Front entrance between centre and right rooms. Probably C19 one-room plan rear block behind left end with stack on inner (western) side. The main house appears to be mostly the result of a large scale C18 rebuild of a C17 house, part of which remains in the centre and right room section.
Main block is 2 storyes with attics in the roofspace.
Exterior: Irregular front with 2 first floor windows and 3 ground floor windows, all C20 casements with glazing bars. Front doorway is right of centre behind a C20 porch containing a C20 plank door under a half-hipped roof. Left end bay is recessed from the main front. Framing is exposed at first floor level, 4 uneven bays overall. The timbers are of relatively slender scantling and includes straight tension braces. It appears to be C18. Roof is half-hipped both ends and contains 2 probably C19 gabled dormer windows.
Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey although the 1987 list description describes C17 features. The main fireplace is sandstone with a chamfered and scroll-stopped oak lintel and includes a spice cupboard. Rooms have chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beams. C17 jowled wall posts were reported but no mention made of the roof construction. Some C17 plank doors. A C18 brick-lined well is now incorporated into the C20 extension.
Listing NGR: TQ6139743081
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438491
- 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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