Knell Farmhouse
KNELL FARMHOUSE, QUEEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254299
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Knell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- KNELL FARMHOUSE, QUEEN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254299
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Knell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNELL FARMHOUSE, QUEEN STREET
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:
- KNELL FARMHOUSE, QUEEN STREET
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 68157 44312
Details
TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD QUEEN STREET
6/349 Knell Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Circa early/mid C17 origins, extended and altered in the circa 1880s. Early block framed construction, clad in weatherboarding. 186Qs addition brick to the ground floor, the first floor tile-hung with bands of scalloped tiles; peg-tile roofs; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces, approximately east. The rear (west) block is a C17 3 room lobby entrance plan, the 2 north rooms, parlour and hall, heated from back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack with a stair rising from the parlour against the rear wall. The right hand (south) room is unheated and was formerly divided into 2, probably buttery and pantry. In the circa 1860s a new front block was added with principal rooms on either side of a central entrance facing the stair. The old house was re-used as a service wing. The roof of the rear block was replaced in the late C20 following a fire.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front to the 1860s block with gables to the front to left and right with bargeboards, dentil verges frieze to the gables, which have finials and pendants. Gabled roof; end stacks with rendered shafts. Gabled open porch on timber posts in the centre, the gable verges with a dentil cornice and finial and pendant. C19 front door, the upper panels glazed. Canted bay windows to left and right with hipped roofs are glazed with plate glass horned sashes, 4-pane in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights. 4-pane sash above the porch; left and right tripartite sashes, 4-pane in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights. The rear block, roofed on the same axis, has a half-hipped roof. The axial stack has staggered triple shafts with a corbelled brick cornice.
Interior: The C19 block is very complete with contemporary joinery and a stair with turned balusters. The rear block preserves C17 carpentry of a fairly plain character with axial beams and exposed joists. Open fireplae in the left hand (north) room with a chamfered lintel and brick jambs. Exposed ceiling beams to the first floor rooms where a number of C17 doors survive.
Roof: The roof of the rear block is entirely late C20.
A 2-phase house. The C19 addition is very complete.
Listing NGR: TQ6815744312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437742
- 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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