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Monument details

HER Number:TR 04 SE 72
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:FORSTAL FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1533 to 1699

Summary from record TR 04 SE 15 :

House-mid 16th century

Grid Reference:TR 0623 4400
Map Sheet:TR04SE
Parish:BROOK, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1533 AD to 1699 AD)
  • FARMHOUSE (FARMHOUSE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1232970: FORSTAL FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 04 SE BROOK SPELDERS HILL (West Side)
4/54 27.11.57 Forstal Farmhouse GV
II *
House. Mid C16. Timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hung on first floor, with ragstone to return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Four framed bays with cross-passage. Two storeys with hipped roof, with stacks to left and at end left. Two glazing bar sashes and wooden casements to centre and to right on first floor. Glazing bar sash to left and central wooden casement on ground floor with boarded door to right. Catslide outshot to rear. Interior: originally jettied on 3 sides, with moulded ceiling beams and moulded chimney bressumer with foliate spandrels, as in four centred arches through passage doorway spandrels to service rooms. Dog leg stair with panelled balustrade and poppyhead newels. Crown post roof to originally unheated upper hall, ceiled in C17.
Listing NGR: TR0623644003

Description from record TR 04 SE 15 :
(TR062344000 Forstal Farm [NAT] (1) Forstal Farmhouse. House. Mid 16th century. Timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hung on first floor, with ragstone to return elevations. Plain tiled roof. Four framed bays with cross-passage. (Listed Grade II*) [Full archaeological description] (2)


<1> OS 1: 2500 (OS Card Reference). SKE48135.

<2> DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16th February 1989 (25) (OS Card Reference). SKE40486.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1: 2500.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) District of Ashford, 16th February 1989 (25).