Barn Cottage
BARN COTTAGE, BOXLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185597
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BARN COTTAGE, BOXLEY ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185597
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN COTTAGE, BOXLEY 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:
- BARN COTTAGE, BOXLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boxley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77163 57948
Details
TQ 75 NE BOXLEY BOXLEY ROAD (east side) Harbourland
5/62 Barn Cottage
GV II
Barn, with added oasts, part subsequently converted to cottage and stables, all but stables now a house. 4 bays of barn late C16, fifth bay added to north in mid C18, oasts mid-to- late C18, 2 north bays of barn converted to cottage very late C18, stables created late C19. Timber framed, 2 north bays tile hung with thick bands of plain and fishscale tiles, rest weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. 5 timber-framed bays parallel to road and 2 oasts added, parallel to each other, at right angles to rear of 2 south end bays. Front elevation (west):- 2 storeys, roof hipped at right end with gablet. Rear stack at left end. Tile-hung area has one recessed 2- light casement at right end of first floor. Double barn doors off-centre to right with 2 C20 square glazed lights, and single door with square glazed light adjacent to left. Smaller double doors in first floor above ground-floor double doors. Oast to rear at right end has stables in ground floor with hatches and casements above. Both oasts have hipped roofs. Interior: roofs, beams and posts exposed. In right oast, evidence of internal kiln and rare survival of part of stud and plaster partition between plenum chamber and unheated part of oast. Left oast has unique arrangement of girder and joists set diagonally. Original barn roof has clasped purlins with reducing principal rafters, cambered collars, and rare evidence for unbraced crown strut to centre of collar. No windbraces. (Mr. P. Lambert, unpublished analysis).
Listing NGR: TQ7716357948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173568
- 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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