Downs Farm House
DOWNS FARM HOUSE, YALDING HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348345
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Downs Farm House
- Statutory Address:
- DOWNS FARM HOUSE, YALDING HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1348345
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Downs Farm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWNS FARM HOUSE, YALDING HILL
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:
- DOWNS FARM HOUSE, YALDING HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yalding
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 69912 50359
Details
YALDING YALDING HILL TQ 6950 (west side) 6/190 Downs Farm House 23-5-67 II*
Farmhouse, now house. C14 or early C15, with C16 or early C17 alterations, restored in 1930s. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond to end bays, red and grey brick to hall. First floor rendered, possibly in 1930s, with plain strips indicating two panels to the storey, and with herringbone combing to the panels. Plain tile roof. Wealden, with open hall of two roughly equal-length bays, and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys. Underbuilt jetties to storeyed end bays, with evidence for both jetties returning along gable ends. Solid spandrel bracket to left end of flying wallplate, and brace under central tie-beam. Steeply pitched hipped roof. Projecting brick gable end stack to left and red and grey brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of three wooden casements; none to left end bay, one five-light to left hall bay, one two-light to right hall bay, and one three-light to right end bay. Blocked pointed-arched wooden doorway with feet on jetty bressumer and head under eaves, to left end of left bay. Boarded door with lean-to hood to left end of hall. Shallow later additions to rear wall. Long low single-storey C19 brick service wing to rear to right, with external lead water pump. Interior: some exposed framing. Left gable end jetty internally exposed, with ground-floor tension brace under it. Dragon beam to front of right end bay. Evidence for pair of pointed-arched service doorheads and for rear doorhead to'right end of hall; part of one head in situ. Unmoulded end-of-hall beams, with two arch- braced panels above each. Lond, shaped, rebated jowls to chamfered principal posts. Partly extant plain-chamfered hall cornice beam. Moulded octagonal central-truss crown post on chambered tie-beam;formerly deeply arched-braced. Chamfer-stopped end-of-hall crown posts. Chambered chamfered arch-braced cross tie-beam to each end bay, that to left with doubly plain-chamfered posts under. Rafters replaced after 1930 fire. Two-light diamond mullion first-floor window to rear of left end bay. Deep head of hall window across front of left hall bay. Chamfered cross and axial beams to inserted hall floor. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer.
Listing NGR: TQ7053251378
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175006
- 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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