GEDGES FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALL FORMING NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE GARDEN

GEDGES FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALL FORMING NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE GARDEN, CRITTENDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249142
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: GEDGES FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALL FORMING NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE GARDEN
Statutory Address:: GEDGES FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALL FORMING NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE GARDEN, CRITTENDEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249142
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: GEDGES FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALL FORMING NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: GEDGES FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALL FORMING NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE GARDEN, CRITTENDEN ROAD

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:: GEDGES FARMHOUSE INCLUDING WALL FORMING NORTH EAST BOUNDARY OF THE GARDEN, CRITTENDEN ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Brenchley and Matfield
National Grid Reference:: TQ 66095 43028

Details

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY CRITTENDEN ROAD

6/55 Gedges Farmhouse including wall forming north east Boundary of the garden GV II

Farmhouse. Early C19 with late C19 extension and further extension and some internal refurbishment of 1987. Flemish bond brick with a slate roof and brick stacks.

Plan: The house faces north with a garden entrance on the east side. The early C19 plan was double depth, 2-rooms wide with an entrance on the north side into a passage from which the stairs rise. Principal rooms on the front, facing north, rear right service room, probably originally consisting of kitchen and butler's pantry, rear left morning room, facing east. The garden entrance on the east side now leads directly into the morning room but probably opened into a passage. The basic plan of the early C19 is still intact, although room use has changed and some doors and partitions have been altered. In the later C19 the house was extended to the rear (south) by an L- plan addition, probably extending the provision of service rooms. The addition is in a sympathetic style with sash windows. A 1987 conservatory has been added at the rear left (south east). Brick boundary wall to the garden is C19 and included in the listing.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay north front with a plinth and deep eaves on paired eaves brackets. 5 steps up to an early C19 6-panel front door with reeded pilasters, flanked by 6-pane fixed windows. C20 nowy-headed porch with a projecting hood carried on plain columns. Early C19 windows all with rubbed brick voussoirs. 3 first floor 12-pane sashes, 2 similar ground floor sashes set in round-headed recesses with rubbed brick arches, the recesses descending to the ground. The left (east) return of the house is 3-bays plus a fourth bay of the later C19 build at the left (south) end. Early C19 central doorway with a 2-leaf half-glazed C20 outer door and a gabled porch hood carried on shaped brackets. The inner door has a fanlight with spoke glazing bars. Flanking the front door are 2 late C19 or early C20 canted bay windows with hipped roofs and transomed windows. The centre first floor window is an early C19 12-pane sash with rubbed brick voussoirs, first floor window right is a C20 V-shaped oriel on a moulded bracket. A change in the brickwork indicates the C19 addition at the left (south) end, this has a similar 12-pane first floor sash and, below it, a 1987 door. C20 conservatory addition at the left (south) end. The west elevation has one late C19/early C20 canted bay, matching those on the east, and various C19 and C20 small-pane sash windows. C20 door to the right (south). Hipped roof.

Interior: Early C19 joinery survives including doors with reeded doorcases and a stick baluster stair with a wreathed mahogany handrail.

Listing NGR: TQ6606842996

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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.