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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 NW 39
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Barling Farmhouse, East Sutton

Summary

Barling Farmhouse : listed building Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1532


Grid Reference:TQ 8316 4802
Map Sheet:TQ84NW
Parish:EAST SUTTON, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1068675: BARLING FARMHOUSE

Full description

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Listed building : no additional information available

Description from record TQ 84 NW 195:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
EAST SUTTON EAST SUTTON ROAD TQ 84 NW (west side) 5/77 Barling Farmhouse 26.4.68 II
Farmhouse. Late C15 or early C16. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Part of ground floor to left clad with chequered red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. Wealden of 4 unequal- length timber-framed bays. 2 storeys on brick plinth. Close studded. Very narrow jettied left end bay. Broad right end bay jettied, jetty formerly returning to right (now underbuilt) on moulded dragon post. Undershot cross-passage delineated in framing and jetty of right bay. Braced flying wall-plate. No bracket under central tie-beam. Roof hipped with gablets. Brick stack in front slope of roof within cross-passage. Irregular fenestration of no windows to left end bay, or to narrow left bay of hall. 3-light casement to right hall bay. 2-light casement to centre of right end bay, projecting slightly on moulded cill. Similar ground-floor window. Boarded door beneath stack. Extensions to rear. Interior: only party inspected. Exposed framing.
Listing NGR: TQ8316448023
Formerly TQ 84 NW 37 (1)

Wealden house of unconventional form. Formerly open 2-bay hall with overshot passage. The lower end is jettied to the end as well as the front, perhaps originally extending back as does the wing at the rear of the house. The timber frame is infilled with plaster, part of the ground floor to the left is clad with chequered red and grey brick, the roof is of plain tiles. There is very little evidence to assist in the dating of the building, but the architectural features suggest a date in the late 15th-early 16th century. In the second half of the 16th century the hall was floored and a stack was inserted into the passage to create a lobby entry. Alterations in the 18th century included the addition of an outshut to the rear west wall of the building, further additions have been made to the south and north-west of the house in the 20th century (2)

Historic England archive material (3)


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

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<3> Historic England, Archive material associated with Barling Farmhouse, East Sutton, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57074.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.
<3>Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Barling Farmhouse, East Sutton, Listed Building.