Exploring Kent's Past

It should not be assumed that this site is publicly accessible and it may be on private property. Do not trespass.

Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1999

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1600 AD to 1999 AD)

Full description

If you do not understand anything on this page please contact us.

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD QUEEN STREET
6/349 Knell Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Circa early/mid C17 origins, extended and altered in the circa 1880s. Early block framed construction, clad in weatherboarding. 1860s addition brick to the ground floor, the first floor tile-hung with bands of scalloped tiles; peg-tile roofs; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces, approximately east. The rear (west) block is a C17 3 room lobby entrance plan, the 2 north rooms, parlour and hall, heated from back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack with a stair rising from the parlour against the rear wall. The right hand (south) room is unheated and was formerly divided into 2, probably buttery and pantry. In the circa 1860s a new front block was added with principal rooms on either side of a central entrance facing the stair. The old house was re-used as a service wing. The roof of the rear block was replaced in the late C20 following a fire.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front to the 1860s block with gables to the front to left and right with bargeboards, dentil verges frieze to the gables, which have finials and pendants. Gabled roof; end stacks with rendered shafts. Gabled open porch on timber posts in the centre, the gable verges with a dentil cornice and finial and pendant. C19 front door, the upper panels glazed. Canted bay windows to left and right with hipped roofs are glazed with plate glass horned sashes, 4-pane in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights. 4-pane sash above the porch; left and right tripartite sashes, 4-pane in the centre, 2-pane in the outer lights. The rear block, roofed on the same axis, has a half-hipped roof. The axial stack has staggered triple shafts with a corbelled brick cornice.
Interior: The C19 block is very complete with contemporary joinery and a stair with turned balusters. The rear block preserves C17 carpentry of a fairly plain character with axial beams and exposed joists. Open fireplae in the left hand (north) room with a chamfered lintel and brick jambs. Exposed ceiling beams to the first floor rooms where a number of C17 doors survive.
Roof: The roof of the rear block is entirely late C20.
A 2-phase house. The C19 addition is very complete.
Listing NGR: TQ6815544365

The Impact of proposed development at Church Farm on the setting of this building was assessed by a May 2014 Desk-based assessment by Wessex Archaeology. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2014, Desk baseed assessment: Land at Church Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE31163.

Sources and further reading