LITTLE DUNKS FARMHOUSE

LITTLE DUNKS FARMHOUSE, CUCKOO LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249523
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: LITTLE DUNKS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LITTLE DUNKS FARMHOUSE, CUCKOO LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249523
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: LITTLE DUNKS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE DUNKS FARMHOUSE, CUCKOO LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LITTLE DUNKS FARMHOUSE, CUCKOO LANE

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 66572 38719

Details

TQ 63 NE BRENCHLEY CUCKOO LANE (off)

10/67 Little Dunks Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid/late C17 with a circa late C18,addition. Framed construction, the ground floor underbuilt in Flemish bond brick, the first floor tile-hung with bands of scalloped tiles; peg-tile roof; end stacks with brick shafts.

Plan: South facing. The original plan was 2-cell, with a larger heated hall/kitchen to the left (west) heated from the left end stack and a smaller unheated service room to the right (east), the stair rising against the rear wall of the service room. The rear (north) outshut may be integral but could be secondary. In the circa late C18 a third room was added at the right end,presumably a parlour, heated from an end stack.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window front, the roof gabled at the left end and half-hipped at the right end. late C19/early C20 front door into the unheated room with a C20 porch/conservatory. C20 casements in enlarged embrasures. On the rear elevation the roof is carried down as a catslide over the outshut which has a large C20 flat-roofed dormer at the east end.

Interior: The framing of the rear wall with jowled wall posts, survives to sole plate level. The 2 earlier ground floor rooms have exposed ceiling carpentry, the larger room with a scroll-stopped axial beam. C20 chimenypiece may conceal an earlier fireplace. The first floor rooms also have exposed ceiling beams and a number of late C17/early C18 ledged doors survive throughout the house with original latches and hinges.

Roof: Not inspected but the original timbers are said to survive (information from owners).

A modestly-scaled traditional house of the region. Group value with oasthouse immediately to the north east (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6661738715

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 431643
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.