Badsell Park Farmhouse
BADSELL PARK FARMHOUSE, CRITTENDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254228
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Badsell Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BADSELL PARK FARMHOUSE, CRITTENDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254228
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Badsell Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BADSELL PARK FARMHOUSE, CRITTENDEN 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:
- BADSELL PARK FARMHOUSE, CRITTENDEN ROAD
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 65067 43371
Details
TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD CRITTENDEN ROAD
6/323 Badsell Park Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C19 remodelling and extension of a circa mid C17 house. The C17 core is framed, the ground floor underbuilt in brick, the first floor tile-hung. The C19 phase is also brick and tile-hung; peg-tile roofs; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces approximately north. L-plan. The main block is 2- rooms wide with a central entrance into a hall containing the stair. The right hand (west) end of the main block and the rear right wing, roofed on a north south axis, are the remains of a C17 house, probably originally a 3 room lobby entrance plan house, the north service end truncated and the northern room re-roofed at right angles during the late C19 remodelling which reduced the original parlour to a kitchen. The axial stack of the C17 house survives, as does some of the wall-framing, and a probably later rear (east) outshut. C20 single-storey kitchen, heated from an end stack, adjoins the rear wing at the south end.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with gables to the front at left and right, the right hand gable a 1980s addition. Late C19 open gabled porch to left of centre with timber struts in the gable and a half-glazed late C19 front door. Canted bay window to the left with a hipped roof, glazed with 2-light late C19 or C20 casements, 2 panes per light. The other windows, 2 to the right of the porch and 4 on the first floor are similar 2- and 3-light casements. The rear right wing has a half-hipped roof at the south end and a catslide roof to the outshut. Stack with staggered triple shafts.
Interior: The C17 core retains one original fireplace to the axial stack. This has a chamfered oak lintel and brick jambs, one jamb rebuilt and the lintel reduced in length. A plaque over the lintel is inscribed in capitals "The right honable the earle of Westmoreland TFK 1712". The farm was formerly part of the Westmorland estate. The fireplace retains a C19 chimney crook. C17 wall-framing survives on the first floor, the wall posts with formed jowls; original floorboards also survive. The C19 stair in the entrance hall has turned balusters.
Roof: No access to the apex of the C17 roof at time of survey (1989). It is plastered over in the attic and is of a side purlin construction.
Listing NGR: TQ6784344787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437660
- 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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