Barn About 8 Metres South-east of Hush Heath Manor
BARN ABOUT 8 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240378
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 8 Metres South-east of Hush Heath Manor
- Statutory Address:
- BARN ABOUT 8 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240378
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 8 Metres South-east of Hush Heath Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN ABOUT 8 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH 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:
- BARN ABOUT 8 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF HUSH HEATH MANOR, HUSHEATH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Staplehurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75764 40757
Details
STAPLEHURST HUSHEATH HILL TQ 74 SE (East side)
3/147A Barn about 8 metres south-east of Hush Heath Manor
GV II
Barn. C17. Timber framed, clad with weatherboarding. Red and grey brick plinth in Flemish bond. Stone plinth to left (east) gable end. 5 timberframed bays with rear (south) aisle, and central midstrey. Roof hipped to right, gabled to left, projecting by one rafter couple beyond the gable-end wall. Purlins project still further, with a short tie-beam lapped over their ends, to carry a hipped plain-tile hoist-hood. Long raked braces from projecting wall-plate ends to purlins. Central full-height double doors to front. Rear porch rising from aisle, with banded red and grey tile-hanging to sides, hipped plain-tile roof jettied forwards on straight braces, and full-height double doors. Lean-to to right gable end. Interior: shaped jowls to chamfered principal posts. Clasped purl in roof with diminishing principal rafters and almost straight windbraces (partly replaced in two right bays after fire.) Raked queen posts clasping purlin in aisle. Aisle partly partitioned from rest of barn by midrails between principal (or arcade) posts, with studs below and tension braces above. Similar framing to rest of barn. Threshing floor braces to ground cill each side of midstrey. Hoist hood a relatively unusual survival in this area.
Listing NGR: TQ7573040835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174648
- 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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