Mount Castle Farm Cottage

Mount Castle Farm Cottage, Lenham Forstal Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116450
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: Mount Castle Farm Cottage
Statutory Address:: Mount Castle Farm Cottage, Lenham Forstal Road

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Date:: 2003-03-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1116450
Date first listed:: 14-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: Mount Castle Farm Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Mount Castle Farm Cottage, Lenham Forstal Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Mount Castle Farm Cottage, Lenham Forstal Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Lenham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 90902 50418

Details

TQ 95 SW 5/189

LENHAM LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD Mount Castle Farm Cottage II House. Late C15 with C16, C17 and C19 alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation, part of first floor, part of rear and left gable clad or rebuilt in galleted ragstone with dressings of thin red bricks. Exposed studding to first floor with C19 red brick infilling. Left gable end part red brick in Flemish bond, gable with occasional grey headers. Plain tile roof to bays of open hall, with storeyed bay to right end. Left end truncated.

Two storeys, with broadly-spaced studding. Roof hipped to right. C19 red and grey brick stack in left gable end. One two-light C19 casement on ground floor to left of door. Boarded door with segmental head up three steps towards centre. Datestone TB/1646 in left gable end, probably reset.

Interior: Moulded dais beam with mortice for spear. Moulded crown-post on cambered tie-beam with mortices for large braces. C17 inserted floor. Inserted stud and plaster partition above central tie-beam of open hall, smoke blackened one side; remains of a smoke bay, probably C16 or early C17. Exposed beams and posts.

Listing NGR: TQ9090250418

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Legacy System number:: 173924
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.