Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1901.

Monument Types

• SITE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 1901 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 03 NE ALDINGTON ROMAN ROAD (north side) 4/48 Barn about 20 metres east of Ruffyn's Hill Farmhouse GV II Barn. Cl6. Timber framed and weatherboarded on red brick base, with ragstone to right return. Plain tiled roof. Roof hipped to left, half-hipped to right, with hipped midstrey. Interior: 5 bays with high aisles and terminal outshots, with long passing shores and eccentric bracing to main posts to renewed clasped purlin roof. Encased in ragstone wall to right return is a Victorian cast iron post box.
Listing NGR: TR0716836013
(1)

A VR wall box is mounted in the southern wall of the barn. It is a Type C - low aperture (cipher 2 1/8" from top of box). It dates from 1886 to 1901. (2)

A building survey was carried out in 2005. It has been suggested that the southern three bays are later but no evidence was observed to support this. The suggested 16th century date for the barn was concluded to be reasonable. (3) (4)

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

<2> The Letter Box Study Group, 2004, Letter Box Listing (Unpublished document). SKE17125.

<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2005, Ruffin's Hill Farm, Aldington, Kent: An architectural and historical appraisal of the farmyard (Unpublished document). SKE18255.

<4> Kent Farmsteads Survey, 1991, Ashford, Aldington, Ruffins Hill Farm survey (Unpublished document). SKE30025.

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