Barn About 30 Metres North West of Great Cheveney House

BARN ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT CHEVENEY HOUSE, GOUDHURST ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1344418
Date first listed:
23-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Barn About 30 Metres North West of Great Cheveney House
Statutory Address:
BARN ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT CHEVENEY HOUSE, GOUDHURST ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1344418
Date first listed:
23-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Barn About 30 Metres North West of Great Cheveney House
Statutory Address 1:
BARN ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT CHEVENEY HOUSE, GOUDHURST 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.

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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:
BARN ABOUT 30 METRES NORTH WEST OF GREAT CHEVENEY HOUSE, GOUDHURST ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
Marden
National Grid Reference:
TQ 73563 42278

Details

TQ 74 SW MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD (west side)

3/51 Barn about 30 metres north-west of Great Cheveney House

GV II

Barn. Early C16 or earlier, with mid C17 and C19 additions. Timber framed with mid C17 red and grey brick infilling to front (south) elevation of C16 and C17 sections. Most of right return weatherboarded. C19 addition red and grey brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, weatherboarded above. Plain tile roof. C16 barn of four timber-framed bays, with one bay added to left (west) in mid C17, three bays added to rear to right at similar date, and two further bays added to left in C19. C19 addition 2 storeys, on brick plinth. Stone plinth to rest. Brick infilling divided by studs and lacing pieces into broad irregular rectangular panels. Herringbone eaves course. Large initial "G" worked into brick, probably for George Maplesden, d.1688. Roof gabled to left, hipped to right, hip returning to rear with lower ridge. Loading hatch to first floor and broad boarded door to ground floor of C19 addition. Virtually full- height boarded door to third timber-framed bay from right. C19 porch to rear. Interior: C16 section has gunstock-jowled posts with short arch braces to tie-beams, plain crown-posts with head and foot braces, and lapped collars. C17 single bay has shaped jowls, and clasped purlin roof with two windbraces. Tension braces to former gable. Cut jowls, and clasped purlin roof with straight windbraces to rear "wing". Stave, lath and daub infilling above midrail to part of rear wall.

Listing NGR: TQ7356342278

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
174708
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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