Faversham Abbey Major Barn
FAVERSHAM ABBEY MAJOR BARN, ABBEY FIELDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344267
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Faversham Abbey Major Barn
- Statutory Address:
- FAVERSHAM ABBEY MAJOR BARN, ABBEY FIELDS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1344267
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Faversham Abbey Major Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAVERSHAM ABBEY MAJOR BARN, ABBEY FIELDS
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:
- FAVERSHAM ABBEY MAJOR BARN, ABBEY FIELDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Faversham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 02111 61762
Details
TR 0261 FAVERSHAM ABBEY FIELDS
659/5/10003 Faversham Abbey Major barn
GV II*
Monastic aisled barn. Circa 1500 with some early C19 alterations. Part of Faversham Abbey. Aisled timberframed barn clad in tarred weatherboarding on red brick plinth. Hipped roof now covered in corrugated iron sheeting. Early C19 hipped cart entrance to east and lean-to to north east, Barn is 132 feet long, lying north-south and assembled from the north. Six full bays, of which the third narrower bay forms the only passage, and shored axial posts to the ends. Jowled aisled posts with slender tension braces and passing braces, three of which are missing to the south east aisle. The crown posts are nearly chamfered and clasp the collar purlin jowled on each side, with 2 head braces. Some sections of the wall frame were replaced in the early C19 and at least two bays have rafters replaced at that time. Inserted early C19 first floor to north on mezzanine floor with a wooden hoist wheel. Both arcade and wall plates have faced halved scarf joints.
(See S E Rigold 'Some Major Kentish Timber Bams; Arch. Cant. LXXXI P16 & 18. Julia Bennett . Anthony Blackwell ' Traditional Kent Buildings no 6 Abbey Farm, Faversham' 1988 p16-27).
Listing NGR: TR0204060907
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bennett, J, Blackwell, A, Abbey Farm Faversham, (1988), 16-27
Archaeologia Cantiana in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. 81, (1966), 16 18
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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