Lower Knowle Hill Farmhouse
LOWER KNOWLE HILL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374219
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Knowle Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER KNOWLE HILL FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374219
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Knowle Hill Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER KNOWLE HILL FARMHOUSE
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:
- LOWER KNOWLE HILL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 85892 48958
Details
ULCOMBE KNOWLE HILL TQ 84 NE Lower Knowle Hill 6/187 Farmhouse 26.4.68 GV II
Said to have been Rectory, now farmhouse. Mid C16 with C17 additions and mid C19 alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation clad with alternate bands of plain and fishscale tiles, right gable end weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. 6 timber-framed bays; second and third bays from left form hall of 2 unequal-length bays with narrow smoke-bay to right end of longer right bay. Left end bay of house formerly subdivided. 2 storeys and garret on stone plinth. Cellar to right end. Short C19 wing projecting to front at left end, narrower C17 one to centre and narrow but longer C17 wing to right end, forming irregular E-plan. 2 latter wings have eaves jettied on curved and shaped brackets. All have thin close- studding and waved bargeboards. Roof of C19 wing forms hip to left end of main range. Tall multiple brick stack on moulded plinth with corbelled top and base of circular upper flue, in front slope of roof towards left end [in left bay of hall] Multiple brick ridge stack to right end. Irregular fenestration of 5 three-light casements; one to each outer wing, one to central wing with returning side-lights; and one to either side of central wing. Half-glazed door with stained glass in half- glazed, gabled porch between left and central wings. Lean-to to right. Short rendered 2-storey addition to rear half of house to left. Interior: exposed timbers. C17 beams of heavy scantling to both floors, some inserted. Ovolo-moulded mullion windows. C17 turned balusters to landing. Moulded brackets to ground-floor beams. Plain crown-posts to left half of house, clasped purlin roof with diminishing principal rafters to right half.
Listing NGR: TQ8589248958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174207
- 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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