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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1567. Bax farmhouse is a fifteenth century house with mid-sixteenth century additions. The front is of flint and stone with a close studded upper storey. Before 1840, a hall range existed between two crowstepped gables, only one of which now survives.

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

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Description from record TQ 96 SW 72:
[TQ 9435 6382] Bax [NAT] (1) Bax Farmhouse, Grade II*, Lower Road (north side). House. 15th century and 1567. (For full description see list.) (2) Bax Farm, a highly picturesque T-shaped house, dated 1567 on a stone over the north doorway. This front is of flint and stone, with a close-studded upper storey. Round the corner are two big stone chimneybreasts with brick lozenge-shaped stacks. The south wing ends in a brick crowstepped gable. Before c. 1840 a second stepped gable answered this one, with a hall range between them (3). Additional reference (4) and site photograph (5).

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 96 SW TONGE LOWER ROAD (north side)
2/185 Bax Farmhouse
27.8.52 II*
House. C15 and 1567. Timber framed and exposed close-studding with plaster infill, underbuilt and extended with red brick, and chequered flint and ragstone, with plain tiled roofs. L-plan. North front: 2 storeys on plinth, ragstone and flint ground floor, with moulded brick string course and close-studded first floor. Hipped roof with offset stacks to end left, and octagonal stack to end right. Wood oriel with transomed lights and blocked side lights to left and shallow oriel to right on first floor, and 7 light wood mullioned window with brick surround to left and 3 light wood mullioned window to right on ground floor. Plank and muntin door to centre right with moulded brick surrounds dated 1567 on stone plaque over door. South front: red brick in English bond, storeys on plinth with string course and crowstep gable. One 3 light brick mullioned window with dripmould to each floor. East front: 2 storeys on plinth, red brick and ragstone and flint chequered on ground floor and close-studded first floor. Two large projecting stacks offset, rising to brick diagonal set flues, 2 left and 3 right. Plank and muntin door set in recessed entry between 2 stacks. Listing NGR: TQ9430063900 (6)

<1> OS 1:10000 1980 (OS Card Reference). SKE48166.

<2> DOE(HHR) Kent Boro of Swale 21.3.85 71 (OS Card Reference). SKE41173.

<3> Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent 1983 480 (J Newman Ed N Pevsner) (OS Card Reference). SKE37825.

<4> Swale and Thames Archaeological Survey Company, 1996, Interim Report Teynham District Neolithic, Roman and Medieval Sites (Unpublished document). SWX7156.

<5> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9620.

<6> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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