Farm Office Approximately 1 Metre North of Lydd Farmhouse
FARM OFFICE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253484
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Office Approximately 1 Metre North of Lydd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FARM OFFICE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253484
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Office Approximately 1 Metre North of Lydd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARM OFFICE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
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:
- FARM OFFICE APPROXIMATELY 1 METRE NORTH OF LYDD FARMHOUSE, SYCHEM LANE
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 64448 44753
Details
TQ 64 SW CAPEL SYCHEM LANE, FIVE OAK GREEN
5/287 Farm Office approx lm north of 9.5.90 Lydd Farmhouse
GV II
Former farm office, now used as a workshop and store. Mid/late C19. Timber- framed, clad with weatherboards; brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Unusually ornate farm office, deliberately picturesque. Single storey one-room plan building built in front and to left of Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.). Front gable-end faces north west with porch on the right (south western) side at the front. Rear gable-end stack.
Exterior: Front gable end has C19 casements with glazing bars, one on top of the other. Gable has cusped bargeboards with timber finial and pendant. Porch to right has front and back segmental arches on shaped imposts. The outer (right hand) side is open and filled with a wooden trellis. Above this level, on all four sides are rectangular fixed pane windows with margin panes of coloured glass. Small modillion eaves cornice. Deep eaves supported by shaped brackets on the corners and tall splay-footed spire-like roof with a weathervane at the apex. Doorway beneath contains C19 part-glazed and similar double doors in opposite long wall.
Interior: Not inspected.
This former office adds considerable interest to the group of attractive traditional farmbuildings around Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ6444844753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436711
- 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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