School House Farmhouse

SCHOOL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SCHOOLHOUSE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338785
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:
School House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
SCHOOL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SCHOOLHOUSE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338785
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1989
List Entry Name:
School House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
SCHOOL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SCHOOLHOUSE LANE

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

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:
SCHOOL HOUSE FARMHOUSE, SCHOOLHOUSE LANE

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 72199 41375

Details

HORSMONDEN SCHOOLHOUSE LANE TQ 74 SW (east side) School House Farmhouse 1/97 GV II

House. Circa 1500, altered C17. Timber framed, clad with painted brick on ground floor and rendered with applied timber studding on first floor. Weather boarded left return; right return tile hung with sandstone base. Plain tiled roof. Wealden hall house plan in origin. Two storeys, basement and attic on plinth with half-hipped roof and stacks to end right and clustered to centre left. Gabled dormer to right. Four wooden casements on each floor. Original entry to centre left, now by glazed door in left return in gabled timber porch dated 1946; basement openings to left return elevation. Catslide outshot and late C20 dormers and alterations to rear. Interior: the roof rebuilt C17 to staggered purlin pattern re-using old timbers, some soot blackened. The two end bays with transverse cambered tie beams with mortices for crown posts. Full frame visible with arched braces and with roll and hollow chamfered spine beams. Red brick and stone stack (C17) and stone lined cellar, part rebuilt with red brick.

Listing NGR: TQ7219941375

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
169933
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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