Martins Farmhouse
1 AND 2, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356172
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Martins Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, PARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356172
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Martins Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, PARK LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MARTINS FARMHOUSE, HEATH ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- MARTINS FARMHOUSE, PARK LANE
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:
- 1 AND 2, PARK LANE
- Statutory Address:
- MARTINS FARMHOUSE, HEATH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- MARTINS FARMHOUSE, PARK LANE
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 77619 50803
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA HEATH ROAD TQ 75 SE (South side) Cock Street
1/36 Martins Farmhouse and 25.7.52 Nos. 1 and 2 Park Lane (formerly listed as Martins Farm House and Martins Farm Cottages)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house row. C15, with C16 and C17 alterations. Restored early C20. Timber framed with rendered infilling. Beaded weatherboarding to rear of main range. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 roughly equal- length timber-framed bays, with undershot cross-passage to left and with storeyed end bays. Left hall bay floored in C16. Right hall bay partly floored later in C16, possibly in two stages, forming smoke bay or stack bay towards centre of former hall. Stone stack possibly inserted in same position slightly later. Rear wing to right of approximately 4 timber- framed bays (Nos. 1 and 2 Park Lane). 2 storeys. Coursed stone plinth. Lower midrail to right end bay. Gable end jetty to right. Broadly-spaced studding. Arch braces to first floor of both end bays and to ground-floor of right end bay. Tension braces to right gable end. Flat boarded eaves soffits. Roof hipped to left and, three-quarters hipped to right, with gablets. Slender red brick stack to left lean-to. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof straddling two central bays, and brick stack in front slope of roof to left end of right end bay. Irregular fenestration of four 3-light leaded casements, the two to centre oriels, with rendered ogee bases. Ribbed door with flat corniced and bracketed hood under central stack. Lean-to to left, slightly set back. Nos. 1 and 2 Park Lane: (west elevation) exposed broadly-spaced studding. 2 storeys and attic. Higher eaves than main range, carried across the main range gable forming there a three-quarters hip. Roof hipped to south. Filleted brick stack to junction of main range and wing. One hipped dormer. 4 casements. 3 ribbed doors with flat bracketed hoods; one under stack, one towards centre and one towards right end. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Moulded right end-of-hall beam. Plain crown- post with foot braces to each end of hall, and plain crown-post with chamfered base on axial tie-beam to left end bay. Painted first-floor stone fireplace to left of stack and similar larger fireplace to ground floor.
Listing NGR: TQ7761950803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174497
- 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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