Forstal Farmhouse
FORSTAL FARMHOUSE, SPELDERS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232970
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Forstal Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FORSTAL FARMHOUSE, SPELDERS HILL
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14985/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232970
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Forstal Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORSTAL FARMHOUSE, SPELDERS HILL
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:
- FORSTAL FARMHOUSE, SPELDERS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brook
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 06236 44003
Details
TR 04 SE BROOK SPELDERS HILL (West Side)
4/54 27.11.57 Forstal Farmhouse GV
II *
House. Mid C16. Timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hung on first floor, with ragstone to return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Four framed bays with cross-passage. Two storeys with hipped roof, with stacks to left and at end left. Two glazing bar sashes and wooden casements to centre and to right on first floor. Glazing bar sash to left and central wooden casement on ground floor with boarded door to right. Catslide outshot to rear. Interior: originally jettied on 3 sides, with moulded ceiling beams and moulded chimney bressumer with foliate spandrels, as in four centred arches through passage doorway spandrels to service rooms. Dog leg stair with panelled balustrade and poppyhead newels. Crown post roof to originally unheated upper hall, ceiled in C17.
Listing NGR: TR0623644003
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 408360
- 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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