Ponds Farmhouse
PONDS FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186236
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ponds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PONDS FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07201/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186236
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ponds Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PONDS FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST 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:
- PONDS FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frittenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 82607 40909
Details
FRITTENDEN BUCKHURST ROAD TQ 84 SW (south side) 3/16 Ponds Farmhouse 9.6.52 II* House. C15 and mid C16. Timber framed and exposed close studding with plaster infilling. Plain tiled roof. Four framed bays; 2 of each period of building. Two storeys and attic, with continuous jetty, at lower level to right hand, and supported on brackets, with exposed truncated dragon beam to end right. Jettying returned to right. Hipped roof with moulded stack cluster to centre right. Two gabled dormers. Wooden casements of 2, 4, 2 and 3 lights on first floor, and 4 and 3-lights on ground floor. The casements to left on each floor are flanked by blocked mullioned sidelights. C20 gabled half timbered porch to centre right with plank and stud door. Outshot to left, red brick on ground floor with casement window, exposed studwork over. Right return with doubled wall plate (roof raised). Catslide outshot to rear of timber on brick base. Interior: structurally 2 builds. The right hand section older and orientated north-south, with double wave moulded beams; dragon beam now truncated, indicating cutting back of facade to align with east-west C16 extension. The doubled wall plate to this older wing points to alteration of roof structure to provide single hipped roof over whole rebuilt building. Doubled main ports and scarfed plates join the 2 builds. Stack with large ground floor inglenook to C16 hall with simple chamfered beams. Ovolo and hollow chamfered mullioned windows, now facing into outshot. Chamfered rear door surround, also now to outshot. Four centred arched fireplaces with indented spandrels. Quarter log stairs, especially to attic. Clasped purlin roof to C16 wing (earlier roof inacessible).
Listing NGR: TQ8260740909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169365
- 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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