DEAN FARM

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241760
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: DEAN FARM
Statutory Address:: DEAN FARM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1241760
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: DEAN FARM
Statutory Address 1:: DEAN FARM

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DEAN FARM

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Elmsted
National Grid Reference:: TR 12464 46401

Details

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -

1/105 Dean Farm

II*

Farmhouse. C15, with C14 or earlier undercroft, and C17, C18 and C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor of central section red and grey brick in stretcher bond to left of porch, English bond to central section and Flemish bond to right end. Broadly-spaced framing with red and grey brick infilling with herringbone top courses, to first floor. Left addition red brick in Flemish bond to both floors. Plain tile roof. Open hall of two unequal-length timber-framed bays, with storeyed end bays. Stone undercroft, orginally of at least two bays, apparently related to an earlier cross-wing or building at right- angles, under left end timber-framed bay. Left end addition probably of C17 origin, replaced or refaced in C19. Main range 1½ storeys, left addition 2 storeys. Flint plinth with brick top course, to storeyed left end bay (on account of slope). Underbuilt gable-end jetty to right. Left addition has higher eaves but same ridge line as main range. Roof hipped to left and right. Red brick gable-end stack to left. Filleted multiflue brick ridge stack spanning junction of main range and left addition. Brick stack in front slope of roof, to right end of right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of four windows; one four-paned sash in open box to left addition, one through dormer with hipped roof and three-light casement to left end bay, one small hipped two-light eaves dormer to left hall bay and another to right end bay. Head of hall window, with pegged king mullion, framed by two studs, under eaves towards right end of right hall bay. Rectangular ground-floor bay window to left end bay, and canted bay window to right of porch. Half-glazed door behind gabled red and grey brick porch with round-headed outer doorway, to left end of left hall bay. Boarded door with segmental head to right end. Brick lean-to to right gable end. Interior: storeyed left end bray ceiled on ground floor, but with mortices for diamond mullion window and shutter groove to left gable end. Mortices for left end-of-hall partition. Moulded and brattished right end-of-hall beam, morticed for partition with doorway to rear end of it. Broad axial joists to right end bay, with trimmer for stair-well parallel to rear wall, towards gable end. Plain right end-of-hall crown post with foot braces, on arch-braced tie-beam. Doubly hollow-chamfered -cambered central-truss tie-beam with hollow-chamfered arch braces and moulded octagonal crown post. C17 inserted hall floor with chamfered axial beam to each bay, chamfered cross beam forming stack bay towards right end of hall, and ground- floor partition framed with two panels to storey-height, under central truss. Brick fireplace with cambered wooden bressumer to each side of right stack. Small brick fireplace to left side. Ladder staircase occupying right end stair-well. Quadripartite vault with plain- chamfered ribs to front bay of undercroft, and springing for ribs of nextbay to rear.

Listing NGR: TR1246446401

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Legacy System number:: 440972
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.