Elmscroft and Garden Wall Attached to North West Corner
ELMSCROFT AND GARDEN WALL ATTACHED TO NORTH WEST CORNER, CHARLTON LANE
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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
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- 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
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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:
- 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.
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