Upper Maxted Street Farm
UPPER MAXTED STREET FARM, MAXTED STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241928
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Maxted Street Farm
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER MAXTED STREET FARM, MAXTED STREET
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- Date:
- 2003-10-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/09973/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241928
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Maxted Street Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER MAXTED STREET FARM, MAXTED STREET
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:
- UPPER MAXTED STREET FARM, MAXTED STREET
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 12609 44701
Details
TR 14 SW ELMSTEAD MAXTED STREET 3/119 Upper Maxted Street Farm
II
Farmhouse. Circa 1739, probably with earlier origins. Chequered red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. Lobby entry plan of one room each side of stack. Late C20 addition to left. 2 storeys and garret. Plat band. Cogged brick eaves cornice. Half-hipped roof. Red and grey brick ridge stack slightly off-centre to right of C18 section. Regular 3-window front of three-light multi-pane casements. Similar windows to ground floor, with segmental relieving arches. Half-glazed door behind central brick porch with weatherboarded gable and plain tile roof. 1739 datestone with heart, over door. Sun Insurance plaque. Interior: incorporates timber from an early-C16 or earlier house. Chamfered axial beam off-centre towards front of left ground-floor room. Cross beam between left room and entrance lobby with traces of moulding and brattishing. Cross beam to right of stack and re- used joists to right room. More re-used timber to first floor, including pieces of a moulded octagonal crown post. Staggered butt purlin roof. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer. Early C18 splat balusters to first-floor landing.
Listing NGR: TR1260944701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441215
- 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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