Holmbush
HOLMBUSH, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277613
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Holmbush
- Statutory Address:
- HOLMBUSH, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277613
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Holmbush
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLMBUSH, BRENCHLEY 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:
- HOLMBUSH, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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 66439 41950
Details
TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, HOMEBUSH
6/42 Holmbush
II
House and attached barn. House circa late C18/early C19; barn C16 origins, altered in the C19. House painted brick on the ground floor, first floor tile-hung; slate roof; brick stacks. Barn framed construction, clad in weatherboarding; peg-tile roof. Barn undergoing renovation and alteration at time of survey (1989) with plans to absorb it into the house accommodation.
Plan: The house faces approximately east and is end on to the road. Double depth plan under a 2-span roof, with a central entrance, the 2 front rooms heated from end stacks, right end and axial stacks to the service rooms at the rear. A single-storey circa late C19 one-room plan block adjoins at the south west, roofed on a west east axis and heated by a lateral stack on the south side. The barn, roofed parallel to the main block of the house, adjoins the single-storey addition at the south west, forming an overall Z plan.
Exterior: 2 storey house. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance elevation with a central C19 panelled front door with a pretty C19 lattice porch with octagonal posts and a Tudor arched timber lintel. Left and right ground floor windows are late C19 tripartite 2-pane sashes with margin glazing; 3 first floor 2- pane sashes with margin glazing. The rear elevation, visible from the road, has 3 first floor early C19 or earlier 20-pane sashes and a C19 plank rear door in the centre under a pent roof. ground floor windows C20. C20 French window to the left (south) return of the main block.
The 3-bay barn has a full-height opening on the east side and a secondary left (south) end outshut under a catslide roof. New mullioned windows being inserted at time of inspection: 2 ground and 2 first floor on the front (east) elevation; 3 ground and 2 first floor on the rear elevation and 2 on the roadside (north) end.
Interior: The house retains a circa 1870 black marble chimneypiece to the front left hand room and an open fireplace with brick jambs to the front right room.
The barn has jowled wall posts to the wall framing with curved braces to the tie beams. Above tie-beam level the roof is a clasped purlin design with raking queen posts, probably C19, but sockets for a former crown post arrangement survive on the tie beams. The rafters are largely re-used. The conversion has involved some renewal of timbers and an inserted floor.
Listing NGR: TQ6643941950
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430924
- 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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