Leigh Barton
LEIGH BARTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241840
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Barton
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH BARTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241840
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh Barton
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGH BARTON
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:
- LEIGH BARTON
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 13219 47019
Details
TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -
Leigh Barton 1/110 29.12.66 II
Farmhouse. Early C16, with C17 and later alterations. C20 restor-ation and addition. Timber framed. Painted brick infilling to ground floor and part of first floor, rendered infilling to rest. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays; two-bay open hall and storeyed end bays. 1½ storeys, on rendered flint and brick plinth. Left end bay jettied on solid-spandrel brackets, jetty returning along left gable end on moulded dragon post. Facade of rest of house flush with first floor of left end bay. Broadly-spaced studding, with virtually straight arch braces to ground floor of left end bay, and tension braces to first floor. Hipped roof. Multiflue brick stack to left end of right hall bay. Three three-light eaves dormers with hipped plain tile roofs, two to left and one to right of stack. Three leaded ground- floor casements. Ribbed door in painted brick porch with applied framing and gabled plain tile roof, under stack. Later (probably C20) two-storey parallel rear range to hall and right end bay, and similar single-storey addition to right of it. Interior: exposed framing. Axial joists to left end bay, morticed for central partition, and with stair trimmer along rear wall. Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam with almost complete spear towards rear end and stump of another towards front end. Soffit morticed for post and stave partition with doorway towards each end. Chamfered hall window-cill extending length of front wall of left hall bay, and another to rear wall. Restored ceiling to right end room, but with slight evidence for right gable-end jetty. Gunstock-jowled posts. Cambered central- truss tie-beam. C20 roof. Chamfered axial beam and joists to inserted hall floor. Brick fireplaces with wooden bressumers.
Listing NGR: TR1178645546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441076
- 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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