Upper Gore End Farmhouse
Upper Gore End Farmhouse, Minnis Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390632
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Gore End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- Upper Gore End Farmhouse, Minnis Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390632
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Gore End Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- Upper Gore End Farmhouse, Minnis 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.
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:
- Upper Gore End Farmhouse, Minnis Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Birchington
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 29464 69308
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 September 2025 to amend details in the description and to reformat text to current standards
878/0/10042
BIRCHINGTON
MINNIS ROAD
Upper Gore End Farmhouse
08-OCT-03
GV
II
Farmhouse. North and west wings appear mid C18 but possibly with earlier core, east wing is C19. Minor C20 extensions. North and west wings are of brown brick in Flemish bond with tiled roofs and brick chimneystacks. East wing is in stock brick.
EXTERIOR: Front range is of three storeys with gable ends with kneelers and two tall chimneystacks to the rear. Three window spaces but central blanks. Windows have rubbed red brick voussoirs and are early C19 six-paned sashes. Simple central doorcase, also with rubbed brick voussoir. Right side of this wing also has one blank to the first floor but a 16-pane sash to the ground floor and appears to have the outline of a Diocletian window to the gable. The western L-wing is lower, of two storeys in similar brickwork with end chimneystack and has two windows to first floor, both with cambered head linings, one a six-pane sash, the other a C19 casement and there is a wide casement window to the ground floor and a simple doorcase. This appears to have been built as a service wing. There is a C19 stock brick lean-to at the end of the range. The whole of the eastern rear range appears to be a C19 further service range of two storeys and is in yellow brick with tiled roof and has two late C20 sashes with a C20 lean-to extension including porch.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: There has been a building on this site since at least 1642 when Henry Robinson bequeathed it in trust to St John’s College, Cambridge. The existing house looks very similar to the drawing of the building on Thomas Hill's map of 1679, copied in 1740. One of only two dwellings outside the village of Birchington in this direction until the railways came in 1863.
TR2946469308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490852
- 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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