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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 65 SE 36 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | Forge Gate Farmhouse, East Peckham |
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Summary
Forge Gate Farmhouse. Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599
Grid Reference: | TQ 65555 52493 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ65SE |
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Parish: | EAST PECKHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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[TQ 6555 5351 - Forge Farm centred - possible site of Forge Gate Farmhouse] Forge Gate Farmhouse, Grade II*, Maidstone Road (north side). Wealdenhall house. 16th century. (For full description see list.) (1)
Description from record TQ 65 SE 204:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 SE EAST PECKHAM MAIDSTONE ROAD (north side)
2/46 Forge Gate Farmhouse
GV II*
Wealden hall house. C16 Red brick under-built ground floor, tile-hung 1st floor. Some ragstone walling visible on west side of house. Plain tiled roof returned gable to left, hipped to right with ridge stack. 2 storeys, irregular 3-window facade, C19 lattice casements. Boarded door left of centre. Later wing to rear. Interior: C16 fireplace with chamfered bressummer and salthole. Possible C16 panelling with arched doorway, perhaps remaining from Buttery/ Pantry. Crown post and 2 king-posts in roof. Listing NGR: TQ6559352510 (2)
Historic England Archive material: RCH01/048/01/265 Labelled sheet of drawings of Forge Gate Farmhouse, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, and a crown-post elevation BF040305 FORGE GATE FARMHOUSE, EAST PECKHAM File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.
Formerly open 2-bay hall and upper-end cross wing of later medieval date. The lower end was rebuilt in the 18th century and the former front jetty cut back.(3)
<1> DOE(HHR) Dist of Tonbridge and Malling Kent April 1985 21 (OS Card Reference). SKE41094.
<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Dist of Tonbridge and Malling Kent April 1985 21. |
<2>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #13644 House, ] |
<3> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |