Open Sided Barn at Tongswood Farm
OPEN SIDED BARN AT TONGSWOOD FARM, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268435
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Open Sided Barn at Tongswood Farm
- Statutory Address:
- OPEN SIDED BARN AT TONGSWOOD FARM, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268435
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Open Sided Barn at Tongswood Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- OPEN SIDED BARN AT TONGSWOOD FARM, WATER 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:
- OPEN SIDED BARN AT TONGSWOOD FARM, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77690 31037
Details
TQ 73 SE HAWKHURST WATER LANE
(east side)
1351/10/10005
Open-sided barn at Tongswood Farm
GV II
Open-sided barn, probably hay barn for making silage. Late C19, part of Tongswood Farm, a model farm built for William Gunther who raised prime bulls for export to Argentina. Rectangular structure with base of red brick in Flemish bond and superstructure of timberframing with pattern of diagonal braces and half-hipped tiled roof. It is built into the side of a hill and has two small wooden doors at the top and a large entrance at the bottom. The grass would be brought in at the lower end and shovelled out at the upper end when well rotted and the open sides were designed to let out the resultant gases. This building played a major part in the raising of the bulls.
Listing NGR: TQ7750030802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461822
- 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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