High Chimney Farmhouse
HIGH CHIMNEY FARMHOUSE, SPLIT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242351
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- High Chimney Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH CHIMNEY FARMHOUSE, SPLIT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242351
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- High Chimney Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH CHIMNEY FARMHOUSE, SPLIT LANE
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:
- HIGH CHIMNEY FARMHOUSE, SPLIT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stelling Minnis
- National Grid Reference:
- TR1526047531
Details
TR 14 NE
2/184
29.12.66
STELLING MINNIS
SPLIT LANE
(south end)
High Chimney Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations, largely rebuilt
in 1983. Timber framed, with red brick infilling. Ground floor red
brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Wealden of 4 timber-framed
bays; two-bay open hall and storeyed end bays, that to left non-
extant by 1983, then replaced. 2 storeys. Jetty of storeyed right
end bay cut back flush with hall facade, probably in C17 or C18.
Evidence for front jetty to former left end bay. Exposed principal
posts and midrails, midrail of left hall bay higher. Right hall
bay has further rail (inner wall-plate or window-head?) below wall-
plate. Various intermediate rails and studs. Hipped roof.
Multiflue brick stack in front slope of roof, in shorter right hall
bay. Irregular fenestration of 3 two-light casements; one to each bay
except right hall bay. Boarded door in C20 brick porch with gabled
plain tile roof, to left end bay, and another in brick lean-to to right
gable end. Short later C20 brick rear return wing, to right, with roof
hipped to rear. Interior: moulded and brattished left end-of-hall
beam, morticed for spear towards rear end. Similarly moulded and
brattished beam to right end of hall, mortices indicating pair of
central doors and another towards rear end. Right end bay has plain-
chamfered axial beam morticed for partition, and broad close-set
unchamfered joists. Shaped jowls to principal posts. Plain crown
post with foot braces to left end of hall. Central tie-beam non-
extant. Window cill morticed for eight-light diamond mullion
window, repositioned in rear wall of left hall bay. Inserted floor
to left hall bay has moulded axial beam, moulded cross- beam across
stack, and chamfered joists with heart stops. Rebuilt brick fireplace
in English bond, with wooden bressumer, and with bread oven extending
across former cross-passage. (R.C.H.M. Report No. 39716, May 1983).
Listing NGR: TR1526047531
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441725
- 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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