Staple Farm Granary
Staple Farm, Sandling Road, Postling, Hythe, Hythe, CT21 4HA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1414060
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-2014
- List Entry Name:
- Staple Farm Granary
- Statutory Address:
- Staple Farm, Sandling Road, Postling, Hythe, Hythe, CT21 4HA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1414060
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-2014
- List Entry Name:
- Staple Farm Granary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Staple Farm, Sandling Road, Postling, Hythe, Hythe, CT21 4HA
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:
- Staple Farm, Sandling Road, Postling, Hythe, Hythe, CT21 4HA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Postling
- National Grid Reference:
- TR1546839441
Summary
Granary, probably of early-C19 date which was re-located several metres north-east of its original position in 2013.
Reasons for Designation
Staple Farm granary, which is probably of early-C19 date but has been relocated, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Architectural interest: it is a good example of a two bay timber-framed granary on staddle stones, a type which has been listed elsewhere;
* Fixtures: retains rarely surviving wooden partitioning to its former grain bins;
* Authenticity: although moved a few metres north-east of its original position in 2013 it was moved bodily by crane and therefore retains a due degree of authenticity in its re-construction.
History
Staple Farm was owned by Postling Manor for most of its history. The granary is not shown on the Tithe map of 1843 for Postling, but as the tithe was a tax on production, not buildings, this may not be significant. It is shown with its current footprint on the 1872 First Edition 25 inch Ordnance Survey map.
In the 1960s the farm ceased to be a working farm and the farmstead was sold in 2005.
Details
DATE: granary, probably of early-C19 date which was re-located several metres north-east of its original position in 2013.
MATERIALS: timber-framed of softwood, clad in weatherboarding, supported on nine mushroom-shaped staddle stones with a hipped tiled roof.
PLAN: square in plan, 2 x 2 bays.
EXTERIOR: the entrance is on the south-west side with a central C20 ledged and braced door. The other three sides retain some tarred weather boards.
INTERIOR: the wall frame has thin studs and some diagonal braces and the roof structure has rafters with ridgepiece and purlins and collar beams. The floor has original wide floorboards and there are four grain bins with partitions of nailed wide horizontal planks.
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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