Barn About 70 Metres West of Sweetlands Farmhouse
BARN ABOUT 70 METRES WEST OF SWEETLANDS FARMHOUSE, COUCHMAN GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344372
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 70 Metres West of Sweetlands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BARN ABOUT 70 METRES WEST OF SWEETLANDS FARMHOUSE, COUCHMAN GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344372
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn About 70 Metres West of Sweetlands Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN ABOUT 70 METRES WEST OF SWEETLANDS FARMHOUSE, COUCHMAN GREEN LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- BARN ABOUT 70 METRES WEST OF SWEETLANDS FARMHOUSE, MAIDSTONE ROAD
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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.
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:
- BARN ABOUT 70 METRES WEST OF SWEETLANDS FARMHOUSE, COUCHMAN GREEN LANE
- Statutory Address:
- BARN ABOUT 70 METRES WEST OF SWEETLANDS FARMHOUSE, MAIDSTONE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Staplehurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78498 45389
Details
STAPLEHURST COUCHMAN GREEN TQ 74 NE LANE (East side)
2/81 Barn about 70 metres west of Sweetlands Farmhouse
II
Barn. C16 or earlier. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays, built at right-angles to road. Left (south-west) end bay partitioned from rest, probably originally, and floored. Hipped roof. Single door to left end. Full-height double doors to third bay from left. C17 or C18 porch to (present) rear of same bay, with boarded sides, hipped plain tile roof and full-height double doors. Later rear lean-to, flush with porch. Interior: shouldered gunstock-jowled principal posts. Cambered tie- beams, those flanking midstrey with ogee arch braces. Plain crown- posts with head braces and an irregular provision of foot braces. First truss from left end has pegged cross-beam between principal posts, with central stud and arch braces pegged between it and tie- beam and with evidence for infilling. Further pegged stud towards rear, rebated to floored side for doorway between it and rear principal post. Cross-beam morticed for closely-spaced joists of relatively large scantling to left side. Arch-bracing to walls throughout. Part of one wall retains plastered stave, straw and lath infilling above midrail. Evidence for narrower rear doorway which pre-dated porch. Sweetlands Farmhouse not listed.
Listing NGR: TQ7849845389
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174547
- 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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