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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 SW 63
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Gate House Farm House, East Farleigh

Summary

Gate House Farm House Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1550 to 1699

Grid Reference:TQ 7454 5307
Map Sheet:TQ75SW
Parish:EAST FARLEIGH, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1430 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1263716: GATE HOUSE FARMHOUSE AND NUMBER 1 GATE HOUSE

Full description

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Description from record TQ 75 SW 160:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
Dean Street TQ 75 SW EAST FARLEIGH Gate House Farm 2/26 House and No. 1 23.5.67 Gate House GV II Farmhouse, now house and office. C17 or earlier. Timber framed. First floor weatherboarded. Ground floor of left end rendered, and of right end painted brick. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Gable end jetty to left; Roof hipped to left with gablet, half-hipped to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; blank area to left, small rectangular window to left of stack, one 3-light gabled through dormer to right of stack and one 2-light casement towards right end. Boarded door under stack and half-glazed door towards right end. Rear lean-to. Timber-framed rear wing to left, also with multiple brick ridge stack. Interior not inspected. Formerly called the New Inn.
Listing NGR: TQ7453953078 (1)

End jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall jettied at the lower end only. The upper end may have been rebuilt in the 17th century. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040334 GATE HOUSE FARM HOUSE, EAST FARLEIGH 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. RCH01/048/01/237 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Gate House Farmhouse, East Farleigh


<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.

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.