Granary and Oasthouse to the South-west of Sheerland Farmhouse

GRANARY AND OASTHOUSE TO THE SOUTH-WEST OF SHEERLAND FARMHOUSE, SWAN LANE, TN27 0PN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1335838
Date first listed:
14-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Granary and Oasthouse to the South-west of Sheerland Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
GRANARY AND OASTHOUSE TO THE SOUTH-WEST OF SHEERLAND FARMHOUSE, SWAN LANE, TN27 0PN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1335838
Date first listed:
14-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Oct-1980
List Entry Name:
Granary and Oasthouse to the South-west of Sheerland Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
GRANARY AND OASTHOUSE TO THE SOUTH-WEST OF SHEERLAND FARMHOUSE, SWAN LANE, TN27 0PN

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GRANARY AND OASTHOUSE TO THE SOUTH-WEST OF SHEERLAND FARMHOUSE, SWAN LANE, TN27 0PN

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

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Pluckley
National Grid Reference:
TQ 93350 45456

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27/10/206

TQ 9345,
27/13C

PLUCKLEY,
SWAN LANE,
Granary and oasthouses to the south-west of Sheerland Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as: PLUCKLEY, LITTLE CHART ROAD, Granary and oasthouses
to the south-west of Sheerland Farmhouse)

(Previously listed as: Granary and Oasthouses at Sheerland)

14.2.67

II*

Built by Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering, 8th Baronet (1807-1896), in 1838. This
is an imposing building. The granary in the centre of the east front is of
stone. Two storeys. Hipped slate roof. Six Dering windows. Four-centred
doorway in the centre of both floors. Four more similar doorways for carts
on the ground floor to the north. At the north and south ends of the granary
is a cylindrical oast and four more behind to the west. These are also of stone
with conical slate roofs. At the apex of each is a wooden cowl with a fantail,
on which is the figure of a black horse (tile crest of the Dering Family).


Listing NGR: TQ9335045456

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
181100
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.

Ordnance survey map of Granary and Oasthouse to the South-west of Sheerland Farmhouse

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