Trench Farmhouse
TRENCH FARMHOUSE, COLDHARBOUR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363163
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Trench Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- TRENCH FARMHOUSE, COLDHARBOUR LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363163
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Trench Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- TRENCH FARMHOUSE, COLDHARBOUR 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:
- TRENCH FARMHOUSE, COLDHARBOUR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hildenborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ5775549668
Details
TQ 54 NE
5/113
HILDENBOROUGH
COLDHARBOUR LANE (west side)
Trench Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Probably late 1830s/early 1840s; said to be shown on the tithe map
(information from the owner), although some of the external detail looks
later. Ground floor brick, first floor tile-hung including bands of scalloped
tiles and diapering; peg-tile roof with C19 crested ridge tiles; brick stacks.
Plan: East-facing, overlooking Coldharbour Lane. Double depth plan under a
2-span roof; entrance to right of centre, facing the stair.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-bay east elevation. Gable-ended roof;
decorative brick band below tile-hanging. The bay from the left is broken
forward and gabled to the front with deep verges and pierced curly
bargeboards. Porch alongside to the right with a lean-to roof carried across
the C20 front door as a pentice, ground floor bay to the right with a hipped
roof. Striking 1-, 2- and 3-light casement windows, 2 panes per light, each
pane subdivided into 4 by diagonal glazing bars. The first floor window in
the projecting bay is set in a vertical panel with rectangles of roughcast
with incised diagonal decoration.. First floor window left is a gabled dormer
with matching bargeboards and a matching vertical panel of rendered
decoration. Matching bargeboards to the gable ends of the main roof. The
left return and rear elevation have round headed brick openings on the ground
floor.
Interior: Not inspected.
A roadside house with some unusual external detail.
Listing NGR: TQ5775549668
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179550
- 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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