SOUTH PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN

SOUTH PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN, SMARTS HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1243092
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: SOUTH PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN
Statutory Address:: SOUTH PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN, SMARTS HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1243092
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: SOUTH PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN, SMARTS HILL

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:: SOUTH PARK FARMHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED BARN, SMARTS HILL

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

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Penshurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 52306 42680

Details

In the entry for;

TQ 54 SW PENSHURST SMARTS HILL 54/866 (Westside) GV South Park Farmhouse including attached barn. II

The entry shall be amended to read;

TQ 54 SW PENSHURST SMARTS HILL 54/866 (Westside) GV South Park Farmhouse including attached Barn. II*

Farmhouse and barn. C16, remodelled and extended 1850-1 by George Devey C16 part weatherboarded with tile roofs, half-hipped to barn; brick axial stack; 1850-1 extension half timbered with plaster infill, steep tile roof and brick stack with diagonally-set flues. C16 barn incorporating part of farmhouse at east end, with 1850-1 extension set at right angles to east. Vernacular Revival style. Two storey gabled front of 1850-1 extension has carved bargeboards, ornamental framing and jettied first floor with 3-light window set over porch with fluted round posts and plank door set in arched frame. Attached barn has C20 casements (to farmhouse) to left of central plank double doors; lean - to roof to outshots swept around front, sides and rear of right end of barn. Interior not inspected. Part of a picturesque group of exceptional importance, one of the earliest works of George Devey whose vernacular revival worK marked "a milestone in nineteenth century architecture" (M Girovard, The Victorian Country House); these buildings are also notable for the combination of the picturesque style with a farmstead which is remarkably advanced for its date.

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1. 5280 PENSHURST SMARTS HILL (West Side)

South Park Farmhouse including attached barn TQ 54 SW 54/866

II GV

2. Mid C19 east extension to C16 building, part of which is now the 2-bay western part of the farmhouse while the other part is a barn. The picturesque C19 part is half timbered with plaster filling, has steep tiled roof and overhanging 1st floor on fluted round posts. The C16 part is weatherboarded with tiled roofs, as is its continuation into the barn. Barn has fairly close set timbers and queen post roof trusses. Brick and stone foundation. Lean-to front projection at right continues around west end. Aisle and hipped porch to left. This range is part of a deep, U-shaped range of farm buildings of immense picturesqueness, probably by George Devey.

South Park Farmhouse and attached barn, Range of buildings at East end of farmyard and shelter sheds on North side of Farmyard form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5229442695

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Legacy System number:: 446429
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M, The Victorian Country House, (1971)

Legal

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