CROCKHURST STREET FARMHOUSE

CROCKHURST STREET FARMHOUSE, CROCKHURST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251329
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: CROCKHURST STREET FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: CROCKHURST STREET FARMHOUSE, CROCKHURST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251329
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: CROCKHURST STREET FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CROCKHURST STREET FARMHOUSE, CROCKHURST STREET

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:: CROCKHURST STREET FARMHOUSE, CROCKHURST STREET

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 62409 44874

Details

TQ 64 SW CAPEL CROCKHURST STREET

5/248 Crockhurst Street Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Early/mid C17, modernised and enlarged in the late C19. Timber- framed, ground floor is underbuilt with brick and plastered (some brick is exposed to rear, Flemish bond red brick with burnt headers) and the first floor is clad with weatherboards; brick stacks and chimneyshafts with C19 chimneypots; peg-tile roof.

Plan and Development: L-plan farmhouse set back from the road with the main block facing south. Main block has a 3-room plan. The small room at the left (west) end which is now used as a kitchen was probably built as a service room, probably a buttery or dairy. The projecting gable-end stack serves the chamber above. Next to it is a large room which is thought to have been the former kitchen. It has an axial stack backing onto the entrance hall further right. Main staircase rises from the entrance hall along the front. Parlour at the right (east) end with a projecting end stack. In fact the entrance hall and parlour are in a crosswing which projects to rear with a short single storey service room.

The crosswing is the C17 building and circa 1960 the rear part was reduced to the present single storey service room. The entrance hall was made by subdividing the C17 hall/parlour. The rest of the main block was added (or massively rebuilt) in the late C19.

2 storeys with attics over the parlour.

Exterior: Irregular 3-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars (similar windows around the rest of the house). Front doorway is right of centre and contains a late C19 plank door under a contemporary monopitch hood on curving timber brackets. Roofs are gable-ended and the crossroof of the C17 section is much taller than the main block roof.

Interior: The C17 parlour, that is to say the present parlour and entrance hall, has a 4-panel intersecting beam ceiling with unusual stops; a bar from which a reverse scroll goes back to a chamfer then scroll stops. The end stack is C19. It is the axial stack which is C17 (now to the entrance hall) but its fireplaces are blocked. First floor chamber has a similar 4-panel intersecting beam ceiling and the roof above is carried on tie-beam trusses with clasped side purlins. In the rest of the front block no carpentry or joinery shows earlier than the late C19.

Listing NGR: TQ6240944874

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Legacy System number:: 433991
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.