Postern Park Farmhouse
POSTERN PARK FARMHOUSE, POSTERN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261901
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Postern Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POSTERN PARK FARMHOUSE, POSTERN LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261901
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Postern Park Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POSTERN PARK FARMHOUSE, POSTERN 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:
- POSTERN PARK FARMHOUSE, POSTERN LANE
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 61449 46300
Details
TQ 64 NW CAPEL POSTERN LANE, TUDELEY
1/273 Postern Park Farmhouse 20.10.54 II
Farmhouse. Mid/late C18, parts may be earlier, various late C18 and C19 extensions. Part brick, part timber-framed. Ground floor level is red brick, randomly bonded tending to English bond and with some decorative burnt headers on the end walls; framed first floor is tile-hung and some framing is exposed at ground floor level to rear; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Double depth plan house facing south. The 3 front rooms are the main rooms with service rooms to rear. Central entrance hall with stair block to rear flanked by kitchen to left (west) and parlour to right (east). Both kitchen and parlour have rear lateral stacks. Parts of the rear section are additions, the left end part to rear of the kitchen certainly is. Although modernised with extensions in the C19 the original layout is preserved. House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace of the front block and a cellar under the centre.
Exterior: Not quite symmetrical front. Central front doorway now contains a C20 doorway. C19 12-pane sashes adjacent each side and 2 more to right. To left a C20 horned 6-pane sash. Timber moulded cornice at first floor level and return round the end walls. 3 first floor 20-pane sashes. Plain eaves and roof is hipped both ends and contains 3 dormer windows, C19 casements with glazing bars and hipped roofs. Rear section is lower with gable-ended crossroofs. Rear has large central 12-pane sash to the stairs and each side are 20-pane sashes to the first floor rooms.
Interior: Only the ground floor level was accessible at the time of this survey. Very little carpentry is exposed and none in the front rooms. Most of the joinery is C19 including an open string stick baluster stair with mahogany handrail. The window reveals have fielded panel shutters, which may be original and more original joinery probably survives upstairs. Roof was not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ6144946300
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436321
- 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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