Crowplain Farmhouse
CROWPLAIN FARMHOUSE, BENOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344429
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crowplain Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CROWPLAIN FARMHOUSE, BENOVER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1344429
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crowplain Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROWPLAIN FARMHOUSE, BENOVER 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:
- CROWPLAIN FARMHOUSE, BENOVER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Collier Street
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 71064 47381
Details
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 74 NW (south-west side) Collier Street 4/87 Crowplain Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Possibly C14 or early C15, with late C18 facade. Left end rebuilt 1819. Right section timber framed, with chequered red and grey brick ground floor (extending slightly into left section), and tile-hung first floor. Left section red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roofs. Right section 2 timber-framed bays, formerly an open hall. Bay or bays to left of hall rebuilt in 1819, except short section adjoining hall. (Bay or bays to right of hall, if any, non-extant). Left section 2 storeys and cellar, right section 1 1/2 storeys. Plinth to right section, part ragstone, part brick. Dentilled brick eaves cornice to left section. Roof gabled to left. Steeply-pitched roof to right section, half-hipped to right. Slightly-projecting brick gable end stack to left. Multiple red and grey brick stack to left end of right section, immediately left of end of hall. Regular 3-window front to left section of recessed sashes, each unusually glazed with twenty-six staggered panes. Similar sashes to ground floor with cambered heads and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Right section has two large gabled, early-to-mid C20 eaves dormers with applied timber framing, and three-light casements with staggered panes imitating left section. Panelled door with glazed top lights recessed in round-headed architrave with rubbed brick voussoirs, behind porch to centre of left section. Short two- storey red brick rear wing to left, of c.1926. Two-storeyed 1930's red brick- infilling to rear to right. Brick dated MG 1819 under right ground-floor window of left section. Interior: three pairs of principal posts with long shaped jowls and tie-beams. Arch brace to central truss springs from below inserted floor level. Rest of framing presently concealed. Roof not inspected. Folding panelled shutters to ground floor of left section.
Listing NGR: TQ7107647333
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174869
- 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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