Abbey Farmhouse
ABBEY FARMHOUSE, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299572
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, LOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299572
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, LOWER STREET
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:
- ABBEY FARMHOUSE, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leeds
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 82198 53045
Details
LEEDS LOWER STREET TQ 8253 (east side)
8/97 Abbey Farmhouse 26.4.68. GV II Farmhouse. Late C17 and C19. Timber framed. Front elevation clad in painted brick in Flemish bond, end elevations tile hung. Plain tile roof. L-plan probably lobby entry. 2 storeys on brick plinth with dentilled brick eaves cornice. Multiple brick ridge stack off-centre to right. Irregular fenestration of four C19 casements. Canted plate-glass bay window with plain tile roof to right end of ground floor. Traces of blocked door beneath stack. Half-glazed door in moulded wood architrave with short gabled canopy at left end. Boarded door with three-light rectangular fanlight and canopy over in right side elevation of rear right wing. Rear left return wing: C17, timber-framed, tile-hung on red brick plinth in English bond. 2 storeys,gabled. Rear right return wing: C19, in same materials. turns to form double depth plan. Interior: 5 timber-framed bays. C17 panelling to right end first floor room. Exposed timbers.
Listing NGR: TQ8219553043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173830
- 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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