Babylon Farmhouse
BABYLON FARMHOUSE, BABYLON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356575
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Babylon Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BABYLON FARMHOUSE, BABYLON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1356575
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Babylon Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BABYLON FARMHOUSE, BABYLON 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:
- BABYLON FARMHOUSE, BABYLON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Valence
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80277 46012
Details
SUTTON VALENCE BABYLON LANE TQ 84 NW (south side) 5/107 Babylon Farmhouse 11.8.77 GV II
Farmhouse. First half of C17, with C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor clad with painted brick. First floor of main range weatherboarded, first floor of left wing tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 3 timber-framed bays, with short C19 two- storeyed wing projecting forwards from left end bay. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Roof has slightly lower ridge to right of stack. Brick ridge stack to left end of right bay, with smaller flue in lean-to behind. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements; one 2-light to C19 wing, and two 3-light to main range. Boarded door in C19 painted brick lean-to against junction with C19 wing. Rear lean-to to right bay only. 2-storey extension of 1980s to rear excluded. Interior: exposed framing. Cut jowls. Ogee chamfer-stops to beams. Mortices for frieze window of at least 4 lights with moulded and subsidiary mullions to rear wall of central ground floor room. Inglenook fireplace to central room. Broad fireplace straddling right end bay and lean-to with chamfered stone jambs with vase stops. Clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters, curved wind- braces, queen-struts to collars, and intermediate collars. Right bay of roof rebuilt in late C18 or C19.
Listing NGR: TQ8027746012
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174125
- 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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