Badsells Mains Farmhouse

Badsells Mains Farmhouse, Badsell Road, Five Oak Green, Tonbridge, TN12 6QU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251198
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Badsells Mains Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Badsells Mains Farmhouse, Badsell Road, Five Oak Green, Tonbridge, TN12 6QU

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Date:: 1999-09-28
Reference:: IOE01/00698/36
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251198
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: Badsells Mains Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Badsells Mains Farmhouse, Badsell Road, Five Oak Green, Tonbridge, TN12 6QU

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:: Badsells Mains Farmhouse, Badsell Road, Five Oak Green, Tonbridge, TN12 6QU

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Capel
National Grid Reference:: TQ 65365 44803

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/09/2020

TQ 64 SE 6/205

CAPEL FIVE OAK GREEN BADSELL ROAD Badsells Mains Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Badsells Mains Farmhouse, BADSELL ROAD, CAPEL) II Farmhouse. Probably C16 origins, much altered and rearranged in the late C18 or C19, some C20 modernisation. Timber-framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with late C18/early C19 Flemish bond red brick with decorative burnt headers (some of it rebuilt in the C20) and first floor frame is clad with peg-tile; brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.

Plan: three-room plan house facing north east. The largest room at the left (south east) end has a projecting gable-end stack. The present layout is the result of the late C18/early C19 remodelling. C16 work is confined to the right end. The present right end room and adjoining part of the centre room was originally the two-bay floored end of a larger house and the upper room jettied at the right end. Two storeys with lean-to outshots across the rear.

Exterior: regular but not symmetrical four-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Front doorway at the right end contains an old plank door behind a C20 gabled porch. Main roof is gable-ended to left and half-hipped to right.

Interior: C16 carpentry in the right (north west) half of the house. Present partition below a large plain crossbeam and the crossbeam across the centre room has a series of mortises along its soffit indicating that it was once part of a crosswall. It shows no evidence for a doorway. The joists are of large scantling and there is evidence of a jetty at the right end. Rest of the house has plain carpentry of slighter scantling. The large brick fireplace has been much mended and its plain oak lintel may be a replacement. Roof of late C18/early C19 tie-beam trusses with side purlins clasped by raking struts.

Listing NGR: TQ6536544803

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Legacy System number:: 433851
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.