Hale Farmhouse
HALE FARMHOUSE, MARLE PLACE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322819
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Hale Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HALE FARMHOUSE, MARLE PLACE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1322819
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Hale Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALE FARMHOUSE, MARLE PLACE 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:
- HALE FARMHOUSE, MARLE PLACE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsmonden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68601 39271
Details
HORSMONDEN MARLE PLACE ROAD TQ 63 NE (south side) 3/90 Hale Farmhouse 20.10.54 GV II*
House. C15, altered and extended mid-late C16, C18 and C20. Timber framed and exposed with plaster infill on sandstone base, with tile hung rear and return elevations with some red brick. Plain tiled roofs. Probable hall house in origin extended by lobby entry plan continuous jettied range. Two storeys on plinth with moulded bresumner to jetty on moulded brackets and returned on dragon post, with small panel frame on ground floor and close studding on first floor. Roof hipped to left and half-hipped to right with stacks to centre right and clustered to centre left and with central hipped dormer. C20 fenestration of 7 irregularly spaced leaded cross windows on first floor and 3 large 3 light mullioned and transomed windows on ground floor. C16 wave moulded rib and stud door to centre left with rectangular fanlight. Right return with jetty and moulded bargeboarded half-hipped gable on doubled wall plate. Left return wing tile hung, in character a lobby entry plan, 2 storeys with cluster to centre left (and blocked doorway under the tiles at this point) and C20 rebuilt stack at end left in outshot; four wooden casements on first floor and 3 mullioned and transomed windows on ground floor. C18 and late C20 extensions to rear, forming a small courtyard. Interior: Right return wing may represent the earliest phase, at present with C16 clasped purlin roof with diminished principals, but re-using smoke blackened rafters (not a smoke bay as otherwise reported), although this may be a later phase to the front range since the joining bay of this wing and the main range mixes certain framing and roofing elements confusing the order of precedence of the two wings. Main range with clasped purlin roof, taller than side wing, and extensively moulded beams throughout, the parlour (to left at the junction of the 2 wings) with C17 bolection moulded panelling with dado and frieze, brought in from elsewhere and cut to fit the room and with some early C20 sections made to order. Stop chamfered crossed beams in upper ceilings. Stack with inglenooks, bread oven and round backed minor fireplaces. Turned baluster single flight stair.
Listing NGR: TQ6855139521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169926
- 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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