Biggenden Farmhouse
BIGGENDEN FARMHOUSE, WATERMANS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262928
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Biggenden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BIGGENDEN FARMHOUSE, WATERMANS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262928
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Biggenden Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIGGENDEN FARMHOUSE, WATERMANS 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:
- BIGGENDEN FARMHOUSE, WATERMANS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67616 43272
Details
TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY WATERMANS LANE
6/191 Biggenden Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably early C17, some C19 and C20 modernisation. Timber- framed. Ground floor level is weatherboarded, hung with peg-tile above. Brick stacks and chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: Farmhouse faces south south west, say south. It has a 3 room lobby entrance plan. Left (west) end room was originally unheated but was given a projecting end stack in the C19 refurbishment. Centre room is the largest. It was originally the only heated room; the main parlour and kitchen. Its axial stack backs onto the left end room and front lobby entrance in front of the stack. Right end room was the service end and it is still divided into two by an axial wall. These rooms were probably buttery and dairy. Seondary outshots to rear include a bakehouse, rear right, with rear lateral stack. This could be C18. Another stack in the left rear corner of the outshots is C19.
2 storeys with attics in the roofspace, secondary lean-to outshots to rear and C20 single storey extension on right end.
Exterior: Front would be more or less symmetrical but for the front doorway left of centre, a C20 plank door with coverstrips. C19 fenestration. 4 ground floor window with 2 centre 12-pane sashes and 2 outer 24-pane sashes. 3 first floor 20-pane sashes. Main roof is half-hipped both ends.
Interior: The C17 framed structure is well-preserved. The wall framing is large framing with large curving tension braces. The larger rooms have chamfered axial beam with step stops. Wall posts with formed jowls. Roof of 4 uneven bays; tie beam trusses with clasped side purlins. The original fireplace is blocked but its large size is evident. House also includes some old joinery detail such as old plank doors.
Biggenden is a well-preserved C17 farmhouse. It is unusual for the service partition to survive.
Listing NGR: TQ6761643272
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433763
- 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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