ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER

ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER, CHARLTON LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320121
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER
Statutory Address:: ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER, CHARLTON LANE

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2004-10-27
Reference:: IOE01/13207/18
Rights:: © Mr Peter John Laite. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320121
Date first listed:: 23-May-1967
List Entry Name:: ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER
Statutory Address 1:: ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER, CHARLTON LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER, CHARLTON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: West Farleigh
National Grid Reference:: TQ 72093 52952

Details

WEST FARLEIGH CHARLTON LANE TQ 75 SW (East side) 2/13 Elmscroft and Garden Wall 23.5.67 attached to north west corner II

Farmhouse. C15, with C16, C18 and mid C20 alterations. Formerly timber framed. C18 facade of red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Open hall of two timber-framed bays. Storeyed ends rebuilt in C18, and that to left extended. 2 storeys and cellar, on stone plinth. Plat band, discontinued to left of left stack. Mid C20 moulded wooden eaves cornice. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right, right hip returning to rear. Four multiple brick stacks with moulded cornices; one in front slope of roof towards left end, one ridge stack to right of centre (to right end of left hall bay), one projecting to right gable end and another projecting to right return wing. Irregular fenestration of 5 sashes in open boxes, four of them bipartite with central mullion; one pair of eight-pane sashes to left of left stack, and one pair of twelve-pane to right, one single twelve-pane sash to left of "central" stack, and two pairs of twleve-pane sashes towards right end. Segmental heads to ground- floor windows. Door of six fielded panels with consoled 1950s shell hood to right end of hall. Rear return wing to right, brick on ground floor, tile-hung above, with three-light horizontally-sliding sash to right side and two-storey polygonal brick bay to rear gable end. Two-storey rear additions to left and centre, partly tile-hung. Interior: four-centred- arched (parlour or staircase?) doorway with moulded jambs and deep hollow spandrels facing into hall opposite present front door. Plain end-of-hall crown posts, each with two foot braces and mortices for head brace. Moulded octagonal central crown post with four head braces. C16 fireplace to right side of "central'" stack with moulded stone jambs and cambered hollow - chamfered bressumer with doubly-recessed hollow spandrels and central rose. Garden wall: red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Slightly more than single-storey height, with buttresses and chamfered brick coping. Runs north from north-west corner of house, curves, then runs about 20 metres west to road.

Listing NGR: TQ7209352952

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 174812
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.