TONGSWOOD FARMHOUSE WITH WALLED FORE YARD

TONGSWOOD FARMHOUSE WITH WALLED FORE YARD, WATER LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338745
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: TONGSWOOD FARMHOUSE WITH WALLED FORE YARD
Statutory Address:: TONGSWOOD FARMHOUSE WITH WALLED FORE YARD, WATER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338745
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: TONGSWOOD FARMHOUSE WITH WALLED FORE YARD
Statutory Address 1:: TONGSWOOD FARMHOUSE WITH WALLED FORE YARD, WATER 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TONGSWOOD FARMHOUSE WITH WALLED FORE YARD, WATER LANE

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

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Hawkhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 77653 30971

Details

HAWKHURST WATER LANE TQ 7630-7730 (east side) 17/454 Tongswood Farmhouse with walled fore-yard GV II House. C17 or earlier. Timber framed and weather-boarded on brick and stone base, with tile hung rear wing on standstone ground floor. Plain tiled roofs. Lobby-entry plan. Two storeys with plinth and roof half-hipped to left, with stacks to centre left and at end right. Three leaded wooden casements of 4 lights on each floor with 2 lights to centre left over door of 6 raised and fielded panels with flat hood on brackets. Basement opening in brick lined open passage- way to left return. Catslide outshot to rear, and 2-storey rear wing with half- hipped roof. Projecting to the front and enclosing the front garden is a brick wall, about 3 feet high, with buttresses, rounded corners and coping bricks.

Listing NGR: TQ7765330971

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Legacy System number:: 169805
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.