Iden Farm
IDEN FARM, HEATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344382
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Iden Farm
- Statutory Address:
- IDEN FARM, HEATH ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06608/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344382
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Iden Farm
- Statutory Address 1:
- IDEN FARM, HEATH 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:
- IDEN FARM, HEATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boughton Monchelsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78173 50871
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA HEATH ROAD TQ 75 SE (North side) Cock Street
1/34 Iden Farm
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. C16, with later C16 and C18 alterations. Restored 1985-6. Timber framed. Ground floor evenly-coursed galleted stone. Exposed framing with rendered infilling to first floor. First floor of right gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays, 3 to left (north) relatively narrow. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. C18 close-studding of thin scantling with straight tension braces. Underbuilt gable-end jetty to right. Roof hipped to left with gablet, half-hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to second timber-framed bay from left. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one 2-light to each of 2 left bays and right end bay, one 4- light to second bay from right. Pegged cills to the 2 outer windows. Boarded door to left of right end bay, in stone, timber and brick porch with hipped plain-tile roof. Galleted stone rear lean-to. Interior: exposed framing. Gunstock-jowled posts, some of relatively heavy scantling. Arch-braced tie-beam and apparently integral first-floor partition to truss adjoining north side of stack, and another to truss between south-central and south end bays. Mortices for unbraced partition to truss immediately to south of stack. No subdivision between stack and south gable end on ground floor. Stairs between stack and front wall. East half of north end bay entirely occupied by rear of stack. Fireplace to east half of north-central bay with chamfered bressumer and chamfered stone jambs with masons mark and inset initialled MN. Mortices for diamond mullion window to each floor of north gable end. Roof possibly rebuilt in later C16 or C17, trusses not matched to tie-beams, clasped purlins with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters.
Listing NGR: TQ7817350871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174495
- 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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