Barn About 20 Metres East of Portobello
BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF PORTOBELLO, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249606
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 20 Metres East of Portobello
- Statutory Address:
- BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF PORTOBELLO, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249606
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 20 Metres East of Portobello
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF PORTOBELLO, HIGH 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:
- BARN ABOUT 20 METRES EAST OF PORTOBELLO, HIGH STREET
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 67839 41920
Details
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY HIGH STREET, BRENCHLEY (north side) 15/92 Barn about 20m east of Portobello
GV II
Barn. Probably early C18 and contemporary with the main building phase of Portobello, the west end rebuilt in the early C19 to present a more polite and less agircultural facade to the garden. Framed construction, clad in weatherboarding, west end rebuilt in Flemish bond brick; peg-tile roof.
Plan: A 3-bay barn built on an east west axis, the west end overlooking the garden to the rear of Portobello; probably later outshut on the south side, present entrance on the south side into the end bay.
Exterior: Single-storey. The west end is tile-hung at the apex above a clock face in a moulded stone frame with vermiculated spandrels. The outshut has 5 C19 fixed iron frame windows with small panes; probably C20 4-light casement on the north side with square leaded panes. Weathervane on west end apex dated 1939.
Interior: Wall framing of light scantling with diagonal braces off the wall posts. Tie-beam roof construciton with queen posts and clasped purlins, the ties on jowled wallposts, with straight braces from post to tie.
Group value with Portobello, the rebuilt west end of the barn makes a special contribution to the setting of the house.
Listing NGR: TQ6783941920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431802
- 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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