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Monument details

Summary

Farmhouse, Elizabethan with later additions Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1667 to 1899

Monument Types

• BARN (BARN, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
• FARMHOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1667 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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[TQ 71295096] Buston [NR] (1) The seat of Burston has the `right' wing built of brick and stone and seems to be temp. Elizabeth. The rest is much more modern. Uninhabited it is becoming a ruin: a farm house is built adjoining it. A surrounding park, enclosed temp. James II, has been disparked and converted into a farm. The manor occurs from temp. Henry III regularly to the time of writing. Its name was anciently Buston. (2) The house is now known as Buston Manor Farm (name board at gate). The earliest part is the east end of the east wing. This is a two-storied structure, stone below and close studded timber above and with what was apparently an external chimney at the west end. The timbers of the south front have been cemented over but they are exposed on the north. All the windows are modern but a four centred arch doorway is possibly original. The rest of the house consists of additions up to the 18th c. The bounds of the park referred to by authority 2 could not be determined. See AO/59/4/1 (3) Checked and correct. (4) Buston Manor. Listed Grade II*. (5) Additional bibliography. (6)

Description from record TQ 75 SW 128:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SHINGLE BARN LANE TQ 75 SW HUNTON (south Side) 2/88 Buston Manor 25.7.52 GV II*
House, late C16, possibly with earlier core, with late C17 addition and later alterations. Ground floor of late C16 section large blocks of roughly coursed galleted stone, first floor weatherboarded to east and south, close-studded with rendered infilling to north. Channelled render to east gable end. Late C17 section chequered red and grey brick. Plain tile roofs. Late C16 section (possibly built in stages) T-plan, with main range running east-west, and stem of T projecting forwards to south. Late C17 section L-plan, wrapped round south gable end and west elevation of stem of T, stopping short of north end and then projecting west from north-west corner; north side of projection abuts south side of west end of T-plan block, forming very small central courtyard. Both sections 2 storeys. West end of late C16 block 3 storeys. South elevation of east end of late C16 block: flat eaves soffits. Multiple filleted brick ridge stack towards centre and one smaller ridge stack towards east end. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; three 2-light C19 mullioned casements and one 3-light casement. Ribbed door in 4-centred arched stone architrave with continuous roll moulding, beneath central stack. East elevation of south wing: eaves raised towards south end, possibly in C19, to resemble cross-wing with hipped roof. Irregular fenestration of 2 tripartite sashes. Hollow- chamfered stone doorway with semi-circular head and moulded hoodmould, up 2 steps to left of centre. East gable end of late C17 section with higher eaves than south wing and with modillioned cornice. Projecting rendered stack. One 24-pane sash. South elevation of late C17 range: high coursed and galleted stone plinth. 4-course rubbed brick plat band. Rusticated rubbed brick quoins. Moulded wooden eaves cornice with scrolled modillions. Steeply pitched hipped roof, west hip returning. Central brick stack, and rear stack to right.Projecting brick stack to north gable end of west wing. Regular 4-window front of barely recessed 20-pane sashes with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Four 24-pane ground-floor sashes breaking plinth and splayed internally. West return elevation: regular 4-window front of 3 20-pane sashes, and one tripartite sash to north end. Two 20-pane sashes to ground-floor, and one blocked late C17 moulded wood cross window with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Half-glazed door with flat hood in blocked window opening to north end. West-projecting section beyond north window, with plinth, plat band, lower eaves, and roof hipped to west; one cross window to south, and 3 sashes to west. This abuts end of late C16 range. North elevation of late C16 range: west end block 3 storeys, with narrow doubly-jettied section to its west end. Jettied section has moulded ground-floor cornice to west return and hipped roof to north. West gable of main range with moulded bargeboards and pendant. Rest of range 2 storeys. Filleted and corbelled stack to 3-storey section, in north slope of roof immediately east of jetties. Irregular fenestration of 9 first-floor casements; two 3-light to 3-storey section and seven 2 and 3-light to 2-storey section. One 3-light C19 casement to second floor of west end, and one to second floor of jettied section. Interior not inspected. Associated from late C16 with Fane family.
Listing NGR: TQ7129050959 (9)

<1> OS 6" 1938 (OS Card Reference). SKE48349.

<2> Hist of Kent 5 1798 (Hasted) 146 (OS Card Reference). SKE43987.

<3> F1 CFW 13.01.59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42554.

<4> F2 CFW 07.02.64 (OS Card Reference). SKE43210.

<5> DOE(HHR) Dist of Maidstone Kent 26.02.87 47 (OS Card Reference). SKE40973.

<6> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 340 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37873.

<7> Field report for monument TQ 75 SW 7 - January, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3986.

<8> Field report for monument TQ 75 SW 7 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3987.

<9> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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