Gun Green Farmhouse
GUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111896
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Gun Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, WATER LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00702/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111896
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Gun Green Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, WATER LANE
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:
- GUN GREEN FARMHOUSE, WATER LANE
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 77500 30802
Details
HAWKHURST WATER LANE TQ 7630-7730 (west side) 17/475 Gun Green Farmhouse 20.6.67 II House. C16 or earlier, altered mid C16 and clad C18. Timber framed and weather boarded with plain tiled roof. Probable hall house with cross-wing. Two storeys and attic with hipped roof and half hipped cross-wing to left, the rear slope of the wing hipped with gablet. Stack to centre. Cross-wing with small leaded 2 light gable window, and 3 light casement on each floor below with 2 light sidelights on 1st floor. Main range with 2 and 3 light casements on 1st floor and 3 light to right on ground floor. Door of 6 panels to centre with flat hood on brackets and glazed C20 outer door. Left return with casements and glazed door with flat hood. Mid C20 flat roofed extension to rear. Interior: front range with rebuilt staggered purlin roof reusing C16 timbers (window mullion mortices in purlins/floor joists used as rafters etc). Cross-wing with queen-post roof and large panel frame with mid rails. Full frame visible with large gunstock posts, the cross-wing interupting the frame of the front range, and with stop chamfered beams and large brick fireplaces. Documentary evidence traces building activity to c.1540.
Listing NGR: TQ7750030802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169826
- 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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