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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 86 NW 1178 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | GORE FARMHOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1100 to 1799.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8435 6651 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ86NW |
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| Parish: | UPCHURCH, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- MANOR HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1100 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 86 NW UPCHURCH GORE FARM LANE (north side)
1/5 Core Farmhouse
II*
Manor house, now farm. Circa 1400 and mid C16, with C18 additions. Timber framed and tile hung, underbuilt with painted brick with plain tile roof. Hall and cross-wing. Entrance front C16 wing, 2 storeys with hipped roof, centre-right stack, and projecting hipped wing to left with catslide and central stack, Two Gothick traceried casement windows on each floor, and 1 Gothick and 1 ordinary wood casement in left-hand wing. Central board door with gabled porch. Interior: hall-house with traces of medieval stone- work in north west, primitive crown post in chamber, an unmoulded post braced only to collar purlin, smoke-blackened timbers, and C17 inserted floors and stack. Side wing of c. 1540, with moulded crown-posts. Documentary research shows the stones of the C12 manor house sold for repairs to Rochester Castle in 1390's, at which time manor became monastic possession (information from County Archives in hands of owner.) Listing NGR: TQ8435666516 (1)
Description from record TQ 86 NW 46:
[TQ 8434 6652) Gore Farm [NAT] (2) Gore Farmhouse, Grade II*, Gore Farm Lane (North side). Manor house, now farm. Circa 1400 and mid 16th century, with 18th century additions. (For full description see list.) (3)
Includes early undercroft (c.1100) - awaiting further details
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> OS 1:10000 1974 (OS Card Reference). SKE48159.
<3> DOE(HHR) Swale Boro Kent 27th Nov 27th 1984 70 (OS Card Reference). SKE41189.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #33135 Listed building, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 1974. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Swale Boro Kent 27th Nov 27th 1984 70. |
