Clenches Farm Barn
CLENCHES FARM BARN, CLENCHES FARM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392621
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Clenches Farm Barn
- Statutory Address:
- CLENCHES FARM BARN, CLENCHES FARM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392621
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Clenches Farm Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLENCHES FARM BARN, CLENCHES FARM 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:
- CLENCHES FARM BARN, CLENCHES FARM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sevenoaks
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 52318 53985
Reasons for Designation
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Details
SEVENOAKS
661/0/10027 CLENCHES FARM ROAD 22-JAN-03 Clenches Farm Barn
II
Barn, later bottling plant for dairy. Later C18. Timberframed except for lower part of south end wall which incorporates an earlier Kentish ragstone wall. Clad in weatherboarding with some old boards to east. Half-hipped tiled roof. EXTERIOR: Original cart entrances to third bay from the north with C19 cart doors to west and curbing stones. Second bay to north on west side has late C20 shutterfronted door and south end has late C20 window inserted below the half-hip. INTERIOR: Six bays. Upright posts have jowls with a curved profile and curved braces to the tie beams. The wall frame has staggered midrails and diagonal braces. The roof structure comprises a queenpost with angled side ties and a kingpost above. There are two tiers of purlins with diagonal braces. HISTORY: This barn is shown on William and Edward Peckham's Plan of 1796 and an estate map annexed to a conveyance of the Kippington estate from Sir Charles Farnaby to Francis Motley Austin, a cousin of Jane Austen, in 1797.
[William and Edward Peckhams' Plan 1796. Conveyance of land from Farnaby to Austin 1797 in KCC Archives Sevenoaks Library Ref U 1000/1 TI Bundle 11.]
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 501285
- 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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