The Forstal
THE FORSTAL, BULL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186118
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Forstal
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORSTAL, BULL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186118
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Forstal
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FORSTAL, BULL 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:
- THE FORSTAL, BULL LANE
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 91302 50265
Details
LENHAM BULL LANE TQ 955W (west side) 5/141 The Forstal GV II Farmhouse. Possibly C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations and C19 additions. Timber-framed core. Outer walls C19 red brick in Flemish bond on ground floor returning short distance round left end. First floor tile hung. Part of left gable end red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on plinth. Roof formerly hipped to left, now gabled. C19 corbelled and filleted brick ridge stack towards left end and smaller projecting stack to right end. Large gable to left end elevation and 3 large gables across front elevation, all C19, tile-hung, with plain tile roofs. Left gable and first and ground floor below it project slightly. Regular fenestration of one 3-light C19 casement beneath each gable. Half-glazed and panelled door with plain chamfered pilasters and bracketted corniced hood with triangular pediment, beneath stack off-centre to left.C19 additions to front to right and to rear to left, some associated with brewing. Interior: right end room on ground floor has dragon beam to front right corner. Central ground-floor room has chamfered axial beam and chamfer-stopped joists of slightly smaller scantling than right end room, and probably C17. 2 trusses and several rafters of a clasped purlin roof towards left end. Interior only partly inspected. Formerly known as Malthouse.
Listing NGR: TQ9130250265
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173876
- 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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