Kenward Farmhouse
KENWARD FARMHOUSE, KENWARD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099152
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kenward Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KENWARD FARMHOUSE, KENWARD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1099152
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kenward Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENWARD FARMHOUSE, KENWARD 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:
- KENWARD FARMHOUSE, KENWARD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yalding
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 69263 51007
Details
YALDING KENWARD ROAD TQ 65 SE & 6950 (West side) 1 & 6/143 Kenward Farmhouse II
Farmhouse, formerly cottages, now house. Late C16, with late C18 or early C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor chequered red and grey brick. Exposed framing with rendered infilling to first floor. Plain tile roof. L-plan: front range of 3 timber-framed bays, that to left longer; rear return wing to left, of 2 timber-framed bays and stack bay. Originally no direct communication between front range and wing on first floor, and apparently none on ground floor. 2 storeys and garret. Continuous jetty to front range, returned to left, and underbuilt in C18 or early c19. Exposed first-floor close-studding of relatively light scantling, with ogee tension brace to left and straight tension brace towards centre. Similar studding to wing, but with brick infilling to ground floor. Front range gabled, left gable with moulded pendant, and plain bargeboards projecting slightly on scrolled brackets. Wing roof hipped to rear. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to front end of wing, and slender projecting red and grey brick stack to right gable end of front range. Irregular fenestration of two paned three-light casements. Similar windows with shallow bracketed hoods to ground floor. Blocked window with pegged cill under eaves to right end of central bay. Left side of wing has one four-light casement and one blocked three-light mullioned window. Two blocked diamond mullion first- floor windows to rear of front range. Central panelled door to front range, with blocked doorway to right of it. Rear lean-to in angle between front range and wing. Interior: exposed framing. Ground floor of front range has off-centre former passage to right half of central bay (behind blocked front door), flanked on left side by chamfered plank-and-muntin partition and on right side by beam morticed for stud partition with possible evidence for pair of doorways towards centre. Axial beam to passage. Right end room has central axial beam morticed for partition. Left end room (orignally 1 1/2 timber-framed bays) has chamfered cross beam and dragon beam. Moulded four-centred-arched stone fireplace with hollow spandrels, and bread oven with iron door, to rear of left bay. Fireback dated 1588 and said to have been uncovered with fireplace. Rear wing has blocked fireplace, chamfered axial beams and bevelled joists. First floor of front range originally had one two-bay room with chamfered beams to left, and one single-bay room to right. Panelled doors. Main range and wing each have clasped-purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, windbraces, and no queen struts. Intermediate collars to front range. Formerly known as Kenwood Farm Cottages.
Listing NGR: TQ6926351007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174944
- 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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