Poppingbury
POPPINGBURY, HASTINGS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261314
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Poppingbury
- Statutory Address:
- POPPINGBURY, HASTINGS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261314
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Poppingbury
- Statutory Address 1:
- POPPINGBURY, HASTINGS 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:
- POPPINGBURY, HASTINGS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pembury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 62935 40553
Details
TQ 62 40 PEMBURY HASTINGS ROAD
13/365 Poppingbury
II
Former farmhouse. Mid/late C17 with C19 and C20 extensions and alterations. older part is timber-framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with C19 Flemish bond red brick and first floor level is faced with stretcher bond red brick. Mid C19 extension is Flemish bond red brick with decorative burnt headers. Brick stacks (the C17 one on a sandstone base) and chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof.
Plan and Development: L-plan house. The main block faces south west. It has a 3-room plan. Parlour at the left (north west) end has a gable-end stack. Unheated centre room contains the main stair. Kitchen at the right end with projecting end stack. Unheated service room projects to rear. This kitchen wing was added in the mid C19 onto a C17 2-room plan house. Original front doorway (probably direct entry into the parlour) is blocked and present entrance into the right end.
2 storeys with various secondary outshots on both ends and to rear. Most are lean-to but the timber-framed one on the right end was built in the mid C20 as an entrance porch and dentist's surgery.
Exterior: Irregular 3-window front of mostly various C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars. All the ground floor windows have low brick segmental arches over. First floor right window is a C19 16-pane sash. Roof is gable- ended and steps up over the right bay which is the C19 extension. Front doorway is blocked and present entrance in the right end. It contains a C20 door.
Interior: The basic framed structure of the C17 2-room plan house survives more or less intact. Where exposed the wall framing is of relatively slender scantling with straight braces. The larger room has a chamfered and scroll- stopped axial beam and the fireplace is brick on a stone base with a chamfered oak lintel. Roof has been somewhat mended although there is a closed clasped side purlin truss with queen struts.
Listing NGR: TQ6293540553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437883
- 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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