Mile Oak Farmhouse
MILE OAK FARMHOUSE, MILE OAK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254291
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mile Oak Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MILE OAK FARMHOUSE, MILE OAK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254291
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mile Oak Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILE OAK FARMHOUSE, MILE OAK 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:
- MILE OAK FARMHOUSE, MILE OAK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Paddock Wood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68051 43728
Details
TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD MILE OAK ROAD
6/339 Mile Oak Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Early/mid C17 with late C20 alterations and rear addition. Framed construction, the ground floor underbuilt in Flemish bond brick, the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stack. Plan: East facing. Lobby entrance plan, 3 rooms wide, the 2 left hand rooms heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack. The right hand room was formerly divided between a dairy and a stair cell. The partition between the centre and right hand rooms has been removed. Late C20 rear right wing.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Roof half-hipped at left end, hipped at right end; stack with staggered shafts of handmade brick. Asymmetrical 3-window front with a C19 plank front door to the lobby entrance to left of centre with a C20 gabled porch on timber posts. 2- and 3-light C19 or early C20 casements, 2-panes per light. The left return has one C20 window to each floor including an attic window.
Interior: The hall, in the centre has exposed joists and some replaced beams. Open fireplace with brick jambs and a chamfered lintel. The crossbeam marking the former party wall with the right end room is re-used and includes sockets for a mullioned window. Exposed carpentry to the right hand room, also including some replaced timber. The left hand room is plastered. On the first floor the wall-framing survives with wall posts with formed jowls and one large straight brace on the rear wall. C17 doors survive on the first floor which preserves wall plaster and exposed crossbeams and joists.
Roof: Clasped purlin roof construction. The purlins are truncated on either side of the stack suggesting a former smoke bay.
Listing NGR: TQ6805243728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437676
- 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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