Barnfield Farmhouse
BARNFIELD FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084617
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Barnfield Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARNFIELD FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084617
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Barnfield Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARNFIELD FARMHOUSE, HIGH 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:
- BARNFIELD FARMHOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75041 30646
Details
HAWKHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7430-7530 (south side) 16/352 Barnfield Farmhouse
GV II House. C16 or earlier, altered C16 to C18 and extended late C19. Timber framed and weather-boarded, with tile-hung cross-wing, painted to front elevation. Red brick and sandstone base. Plain tiled roofs. Possible hall house origin now lobby entry plan, rebuilt and extended with cross wing C16/C17. Two storeys with 2-storey and garret cross-wing. Hipped main range with stacks to left and to centre right; half-hipped cross-wing. Wooden casement on each floor of cross-wing and irregular ranges of wooden casements to main block. Boarded door to centre with flat hood on brackets. Three half-hipped wings projecting at rear, with wooden casements. Many casements retain C18 leaded crown glass lights. C19 red brick dairy attached to rear left. Interior: fully framed interior of several periods. End right appears to be 2 bay C16 cross-wing with 1 bay of main range, the central section of the main range rebuilt and spliced into the frame of this end section. Cross-wing at left separately framed. Renewed clasped purlin roofs throughout (C17 probably). Inglenooks with sandstone blocks at base, chamfered wooden chimney bressummers and coving. Brick floors to ground floor, 14" oak boards to upper floor. Great and Little Barnfield Hundreds take their names form this site.
Listing NGR: TQ7504130646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169702
- 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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