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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 54 SW 83
Type of record:Building
Name:Barn at Place Barn Farm

Summary

18thC barn. This is all that remains of a fold yarn complex.


Grid Reference:TQ 52929 44197
Map Sheet:TQ54SW
Parish:PENSHURST, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • BUILDING (Unknown date)
  • BARN (Later than 1700, Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Barn (now converted to a visitor centre) is two storey with single storey extensions with leanto and pitched roof. These are all that remain of a fold yard complex which occupied the main car park hardstanding. The barn is timber framed with horizontal boarding under tiled roofs with half hipped gables to central roof. Various modern metal winodws and boarded doors.(1)

Additional Info (2)


<1> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.

<2> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge.
<2>Unpublished document: Cluttons. 1994. Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan.

Related records

TQ 54 SW 82Part of: Place Barn Farmhouse (Building)