Church Hall
CHURCH HALL, LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249627
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HALL, LOWER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249627
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Church Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HALL, LOWER ROAD
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:
- CHURCH HALL, LOWER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- East Farleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 73394 53285
Details
LOWER ROAD TQ 75 SW EAST FARLEIGH (North Side) 2/45 Church Hall 20.12.1983 GV II
National school, now church hall. Mid C19 (by 1866), by J. Clarke. Uncoursed ragstone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road. Front gable end with short, slightly recessed wing to right. Further short wing towards rear, to long left side. 2 storeys, on chamfered stone plinth. 2 moulded stone string courses forming band between storeys to gable end, and one, lower, to right wing. Lower eaves to right wing. Stone-coped and kneelered gable with angled projections and fleur-de-lys finial. Similar gables to wings. Slightly projecting stone stack in angle with left wing. Tall window of 3 cusped lights with sexfoil and hoodmould. Ground-floor window of 3 stepped lights in moulded pointed- arched recess. First-floor window to wing of 3 stepped Caernavon-arched lights. Cusped lancet to ground-floor. Slightly recessed stone lean-to to left with boarded door. Taller doorway to right wing. Bell-cote to right gable end. Right return elevation of main range has four ground-floor windows similar to ground-floor window of gable end, alternating with buttresses, groups of lancets to first-floor, and central dormer. 2-storey turret to north-west, linked by cat-walk. Interior not inspected. Replaced a school by Butterfield, built in 1846. (J. Newman, B.O.E. Series, West Kent and the Weald,1980).
Listing NGR: TQ7291753345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431836
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980)
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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