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Monument details

Summary

C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1699

Monument Types

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

Full description

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(TQ 784473) Rabbit's Cross Farm (NAT) (1) Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse is a 15th century, timber framed and close studded building with plaster in-filling. It is of two storeys and the first floor of the end window bay oversails. It has a steeply pitched hipped tiled roof. (2) Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse, Lower Farm Road, Broughton Monchelsea. Grade II*. Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations. Timberframed, with plaster infilling. [For full description see list]. (3) Additional bibliography. (4)

Description from record TQ 74 NE 79:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA LOWER FARM ROAD TQ 74 NE (South-West side)
2/53 Rabbit's Cross Farmhouse 23.5.67 GV II*
Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, with C17 alterations. Timber framed, with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden with two roughly equal-length hall bays, and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and attic. Stone plinth to right end bay, brick plinth to rest. Close-studded. Broad, low window-cill to left hall bay. Right and left end bays jettied to front. Arch braces to flying wall-plate and solid-spandrel bracket to central tie-beam end. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Multiple filleted red and grey brick stack in front slope of roof, to left end of right hall bay, and slender brick stack within right lean-to. C17 2 1/2-storey close-studded rectangular bay window on chamfered painted stone base to left hall bay, rising through eaves, with flying wall-plate removed in front of it; gable jettied on shaped brackets, with moulded bressumer and with moulded bargeboards and pendant. Leaded 3-light mullioned window to gable. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; one 8-light mullioned and transomed first-floor window with moulded head and cill to C17 bay, with 2-light mullioned frieze windows to flanking hall walls; and one 2-light paned casement to right end bay. Blocked window to left end bay, and another to right hall bay. Small 4-light mullioned window to left end bay on ground floor, and 2-light paned casement to right end bay. Ground-floor window of C17 bay similar to first-floor, also with 2-light frieze windows. Boarded door in moulded 4-centred arched architrave with hollow spandrels and with brattished moulding to midrail over, to right end of right hall bay. Brick lean-to to right with applied studding to gable. Short rear lean-to to left. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7849847368 (5)

<1> OS 1:10000 1971 (OS Card Reference). SKE48156.

<2> DOE (HHR) Maidstone Kent 1960 16 (OS Card Reference). SKE40595.

<3> DOE (HHR) Borough of Maidstone Kent 25 March 1987 (OS Card Reference). SKE39936.

<4> Buildings of England West Kent and the Weald 1980 177 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38421.

<5> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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