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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 75 NW 76
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Court Farmhouse, Eccles, Aylesford

Summary

16thc and earlier hall house Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1599

Grid Reference:TQ 7279 5904
Map Sheet:TQ75NW
Parish:AYLESFORD, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

Monument Types

  • FARMHOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1070571: COURT FARMHOUSE

Full description

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(TQ 72795904) Court Farm (NAT). (1) Court Farmhouse, Bull Lane. Grade II* Hall-house, now farmhouse. Probably 16th century with some earlier remains (for full description see list). (2) Not mentioned in The Buildings of England. (3)

Description from record TQ 75 NW 235:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
AYLESFORD CP BULL LANE TQ 7259 (north side) 11/25 Court Farmhouse 1.8.52
GV II*
Hall-house, now farmhouse. Probably C16 with some earlier remains. Timber- framed with painted brick ground floor and rendered first floor. Plain tiled roof, hipped to left, with large left-end brick stack and random rubble stone projecting breast, and ridge stack off-centre to right. 2 storeys; 3 windows, slightly irregular, triple casements above, six-light casements below. Half- glazed door to left of central window, with C19 gabled porch with barge-boards and wooden supports. South front originally jettied with joist-ends now supported by large bressummer. Blocked 4-light mullioned window on 1st floor. Interior: Much evidence of substantial frame. C17 spiral staircase with solid newel and timber treads in framed addition to rear. Collar-purlin roof with moulded crown-post. C17 boarded door with original snecked latch in attic. Original door-surround, probably C15 and arched, at staircase end of screens- passage, but facing in towards building rather than out. 2 mullioned windows are said to have been found also facing into the building.
Listing NGR: TQ7279359043 (4)


<1> OS 1:2500 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48214.

<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling Kent 1987 11 (OS Card Reference). SKE40385.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37841.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1972.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling Kent 1987 11.
<3>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 (J Newman).
<4>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #20042 Find, ]