Little London Farmhouse
LITTLE LONDON FARMHOUSE, LOWER TWYDALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259706
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Little London Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE LONDON FARMHOUSE, LOWER TWYDALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259706
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Little London Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE LONDON FARMHOUSE, LOWER TWYDALL 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:
- LITTLE LONDON FARMHOUSE, LOWER TWYDALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80269 67846
Details
GILLINGHAM
TQ86NW LOWER TWYDALL LANE, Twydall 686-1/8/122 (North West side) 21/12/73 Little London Farmhouse (Formerly Listed as: TWYDALL LANE, Twydall (North West side) Little London Farmhouse)
II
House. Late C15-early C16, altered C17, C19 rear range. Timber-frame on a flint plinth, partly brick, render and weatherboard, brick left-hand external gable and rear lateral stacks, with a tiled roof. PLAN: 3-room parallel plan with a right-hand lean-to and a C19 rear service range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Flint plinth, rendered ground floor and close-studded first floor with end tension braces and 2 cills to small blocked late C16 clerestory windows under the eaves; C17 English bond left-hand gable and right-hand weatherboard gable. A C20 bracketed timber canopy with a hipped roof to the right of the left-hand window and boarded door; left-hand 8/8-pane sash in exposed frame, central and right-hand C20 casements, first-floor C19 casements and central 3/6-pane sash. Right-hand lean-to has raking roof and C19 timber-framed half gable. Lower rear wing encloses a lateral stack, with a gabled stair tower in the left-hand angle, and a late C20 conservatory linked to a rear C19 brick and tile service extension. INTERIOR: not inspected. A retaining wall in the cellar contains the capital of a column (the shaft of which is within the garden) which may have come from the chantry chapel built by John Beafits from Twydall Manor House in 1433 and demolished in 1756. (The History and Topography Survey of the County of Kent: Hastead E: 2nd ed.: vol 4: 1972-: 235, 236).
Listing NGR: TQ8026967845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462602
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hastead, E, The History and Topography Survey of the County of Kent, (1972), 235, 236
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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