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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 54 SW 204
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:FORD PLACE FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1869

Summary from record TQ 54 SW 70:

GII E-M 18thC house with possible earlier core.

Grid Reference:TQ 52601 42895
Map Sheet:TQ54SW
Parish:PENSHURST, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • SITE (Unknown date)
  • FARMHOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1700 AD? to 2050 AD)
  • SITE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1869 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1259021: FORD PLACE FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
PENSHURST FORDCOMBE ROAD 1. 5280 (East Side) (off) Ford Place TQ 54 SW 54/805
II
2. Early-mid C18 house of coursed freestone. Possibly older core. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 2 windows. At right extensions of 1869 with projecting chimney breast. At left older part under gable. High pitched slated roof with old ridge stack. 2 dormers, C19 casements. Other windows sashes with glazing bars, those on ground floor 3-light. Central door in moulded architrave under flat hood, with short side walls guarding drop into area.
Ford Place shall be amended to read Ford Place Farmhouse.
PENSHURST FORDCOMBE ROAD 1. 5280 (East Side) (off) Ford Place TQ 54 SW 54/805
II
2. Early-mid C18 house of coursed freestone. Possibly older core. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 2 windows. At riglt extensions of 1869 with projecting chimney breast. At left older part under gable. High pitched slated roof with old ridge stack. 2 dormers, C19 casements. Other windows sashes with glazing bars, those on ground floor 3-light. Central door in moulded architrave under flat hood, with short side walls guarding drop into area.
Listing NGR: TQ5260142895

Description from record TQ 54 SW 70:
Early -Mid 18thC farmhouse with possible earlier interior. It was built of dressed stone with a slate roof and flat roofed dormers. It was extended at each end, probably by George Devey in 1869.(1)

Additional Info (2)


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<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 Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document).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 Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document).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
---Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<1>Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge.
<2>Unpublished document: Cluttons. 1994. Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan.