Mays Barn

MAYS BARN, ROMFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1360968
Date first listed:
24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Mays Barn
Statutory Address:
MAYS BARN, ROMFORD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1360968
Date first listed:
24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Mays Barn
Statutory Address 1:
MAYS BARN, ROMFORD 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.

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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:
MAYS BARN, ROMFORD ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Pembury
National Grid Reference:
TQ 63796 40980

Details

TQ 64 SW PEMBURY ROMFORD ROAD

5/419 Mays Barn

GV II

Former threshing barn. C17, converted to a house circa 1984. Timber-framed on brick footings. Exposed frame at ground floor level is nogged with brick, it is weatherboarded above. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: Roadside barn converted to a house backing onto the road and facing south south west, say south. Originally it had full height opposing doorways onto the threshing floor left (west) of centre.

Exterior: The roadside double doorway has been blocked and filled with framing like the original. One ground floor window left of the blocked double doorway is set in blocking of a former hatchway. The south side has 3 pairs of windows at ground floor level and four first floor windows, all relatively small C20 casements avoiding the timbers of the old frame. Present front doorway in blocking of the original double doorway and contains a C20 part- glazed door. Blocking of barn doorway is mostly glazed. Roof is half-hipped both ends.

Interior: Is largely the result of the C20 modernisation but it seems that the C17 framed structure is well-preserved. 4 bays. Wall posts with formed jowls. Straight arch braces to tie-beams. Clasped side purlin roof with queen struts.

Listing NGR: TQ6379640980

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
438449
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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