Ruffyn's Hill Farmhouse and Walls Projecting
RUFFYN'S HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS PROJECTING, ROMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184521
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ruffyn's Hill Farmhouse and Walls Projecting
- Statutory Address:
- RUFFYN'S HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS PROJECTING, ROMAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1184521
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ruffyn's Hill Farmhouse and Walls Projecting
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUFFYN'S HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS PROJECTING, ROMAN 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:
- RUFFYN'S HILL FARMHOUSE AND WALLS PROJECTING, ROMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldington
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 07170 36011
Details
TR 03 NE ALDINGTON ROMAN ROAD (north side) 4/47 Ruffyn's Hill Farmhouse and 13.10.52 walls projecting GV II* House. C16 or earlier, altered early C17. Timber framed and clad with red brick, in part in English bond, with some ragstone walling. Plain tiled roof. Hall house plan in origin. Two storeys on plinth (ragstone to rear) with hipped roof with gablets (half-hipped to left) with stack clusters to left and projecting and offset to end right. Two tripartite wooden casements, with segmental heads on ground floor, and 6 panelled door in gabled porch, with semi-circular fanlight to centre right. Two storeyed C17 gabled porch to left, with diapered brickwork and stone quoins, stone mullioned and transomed window and plank and stud door in four centred arched doorway with label hood. Projecting rear wings, part in ragstone, with four-centred arched doorway and catslide outshot to main range. Interior: Cl7 reeded beamed ceiling, oak panelling (similar to some now located in Aldington parish church), plaster cornices, staircase and carved overmantel reported. Projecting from front elevation to right a ragstone wall, some 8 feet high and about 10 yards long, with brick surround to four centred arched doorway. Red brick and ragstone wall projecting to left, about 10 x 25 yards with blocked up arched opening, terminating in red brick pier. The house was altered and enriched prior to his death in 1639 by Humphrey Blechenden (panelling in Church said to be from Ruffyn's Hill dated 1617). (See Hasted, VIII, 322; Igglesden, 13, 1919, 36).
Listing NGR: TR0716836013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181632
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hasted, E, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1797)
Igglesden, C, Saunter through Kent with pen and pencil, (1919), 36
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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