Babbs Farmhouse
BABBS FARMHOUSE, BABBS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281647
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Babbs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BABBS FARMHOUSE, BABBS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1281647
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Babbs Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BABBS FARMHOUSE, BABBS 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:
- BABBS FARMHOUSE, BABBS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79139 32948
Details
BENENDEN TQ73SE BABBS LANE 1350-0/2/1 Babbs Farmhouse 20/06/67 GV II*
House. c1603 house with integral parlour wing refaced in C18 and refenestrated in C20. Timber framed building with close-studding with plaster infill visible in the west face of the west wing but remainder refaced in red brick on ground floor and tile hung above. Tiled roof with large external brick chimney stack and large crow-stepped brick external stack to rear. 2 storeys 4 windows facing west, 3 windows facing south. C20 casements. C20 dormers with 6 panelled door. Interior has fine Jacobean staircase with solid treads and newel posts with finials. Hall has screen with linenfold panelling, roll moulded ceiling and open fireplace with wooden roll moulded bressumer with spandrels. Parlour ceiling is also roll moulded with stone 4 centred arched fireplace with overmantel with volutes. Series of fine panelled doors. In the early C18 this was the house of the infamous Kitty Fisher a lady at court about whom the nursery rhyme about Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher was devised.
Listing NGR: TQ7913932948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 170109
- 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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