North Elham Farmhouse
NORTH ELHAM FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262309
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- North Elham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH ELHAM FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262309
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- North Elham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH ELHAM FARMHOUSE
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:
- NORTH ELHAM FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 18202 44717
Details
TR 14 SE ELHAM NORTH ELHAM
4/45 North Elham Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Early C17, with later facade and alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick, first floor tile-hung. Front gable end of left cross-wing red brick in a Sussex-type bond to ground floor, buff brick in Flemish bond above. Left return tile-hung, probably over brick. Plain tile roof. East-facing main range of 2 timber-framed bays, built at right-angles to road. Later C17 or C18 single-bay rear return wing to right. Left (south)end rebuilt in early C19 as cross-wing projecting to front (slightly) and rear, but incorporating fragment of earlier timber-framing in right wall. 2 storeys. Left cross-wing has higher eaves and ridge, roof hipped to front and rear. Main range hipped to right with gablet. Rear right wing 1½ storeys, with half-hipped roof. Multiflue brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of main range, and another to rear to right to junction of rear wing and main range. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one recessed twelve-pane sash to front gable-end of left cross-wing, one pair of four-pane sashes with central mullion towards centre of main range, and one four-pane sash towards right end. Boarded door to right of centre of main range. Lean-to with tile- hung gable to right end. Lean-to to long left side of rear right wing, descending almost to ground. Lean-to to right side of wing with partly chalk-lump walls. Red and grey brick rear lean-to to left end of main range, with half-glazed door under stack. Interior: exposed framing. Chamfered cross beam to right of centre of principal ground-floor room, and tenoned axial beam. Partition of thin studs and lacing- pieces with three panels to storey, to right end of room. Right end ground-floor room has chamfered axial beam and joists, and door of twelve moulded panels to right gable end. Gunstock-jowled posts. Tie-beam with partition under it above cross beam of principal ground- floor room. No truss over ground-floor partition. Exposed framing to rear wall of main range. Inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer to left end of principal ground floor room, and smaller brick fireplace with angled back to first floor above. Brick inglenook with bressumer to ground floor of rear right wing. Left cross-wing has reeded window architrave with paterae, panelled shutters, similar doorway, and stick balusters. Formerly known as Parsonage Farm.
Listing NGR: TR1820244717
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435332
- 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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