Rabbit Farmhouse

Rabbit Farmhouse, Goudhurst Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0HQ

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367118
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Rabbit Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Rabbit Farmhouse, Goudhurst Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0HQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1367118
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: Rabbit Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Rabbit Farmhouse, Goudhurst Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0HQ

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Rabbit Farmhouse, Goudhurst Road, Staplehurst, TN12 0HQ

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Staplehurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 77175 41112

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 August 2022 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 74 SE 3/98

STAPLEHURST GOUDHURST ROAD (West side) Rabbit Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Thorford Hall)

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C18. Timber framed. Ground floor brick, first floor banded plain and fishscale tiles. Plain tile roof. Two timber-framed bays and central stack bay. Two storeys and garret. Half-hipped roof with gablets. Brick ridge stack towards centre. Irregular fenestration of three two-light casements. Boarded door in lean-to brick porch under stack. Dated brick South on stack. J M 1720

Interior: exposed framing, including quantity of re-used C16 or earlier timber. Brick fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Staggered butt purlin roof. Formerly known as Rabbit Farm.

Listing NGR: TQ7717541112

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 174565
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.