Balcombe Farmhouse
BALCOMBE FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338652
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Balcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BALCOMBE FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338652
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Balcombe Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALCOMBE FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST 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:
- BALCOMBE FARMHOUSE, BUCKHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Frittenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 82076 40916
Details
FRITTENDEN BUCKHURST ROAD TQ 84 SW (north side) 3/12 Balcombe Farmhouse 20.6.67 GV II* House. C15, altered C16 and C18. Timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hung on first floor. Plain tiled roof. In plan a truncated 3-bay Wealden. Two storeys and attic on plinth with the 2 hall bays to right recessed, the eaves carried on brackets. Hipped roof with gablets (especially marked to right), and with 1 hipped dormer and moulded stack cluster to rear left. Truncated stack at end right, the base in English Bond, originally with bread oven, now single storey extension. Two 3-light and one 2-light wooden casements on first floor, two 3-light and central tripartite glazing bar sash on ground floor. Door of 4 panels to centre left with trellised porch. Extended left return with wooden casements and glazed doors. Interior: framing details suggest this was never a full Wealden plan, but either built adjacent to a now lost earlier service wing, or always a single wing Wealden (suggested by Mason. Framed Building of the Weald, 1964 as a genuine sub- type). Dais screen of lapped vertical boarding with brattished beam and integral four centred arched doorway (to parlour), with central C19 doorway but through. Rear through passage doorway survives. Ceiling beams with late C16 ovolo and cavetto mouldings. Early C19 doors with strap hinges and boarded partitions. Double arch-braced spere truss to main hall solar frame. Tall (5½ feet) octagonal moulded crown post roof, on simple and hollow chamfered cambered tie beams of large scantling.
Listing NGR: TQ8187240967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169361
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mason, R T, Framed Buildings of the Weald, (1964)
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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