Exploring Kent's Past

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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1832.

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1767 AD to 2050 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) 4/49 Stable/stock house about 20 metres north east of Ruffyn's Hill Farmhouse GV II Stable/stock house. C18, extended early Cl9. Ragstone with red brick dressings, with weather boarded gables and plain tiled roof. Single storey half-hipped block with central boarded door with segmental head, 3 ventilation slits to left and 2 to right in single bay extension (the brick quoins of the original end wall survive). Rear elevation (to stock yard) with a segmentally headed half-doors. Loft doors in gable ends. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TR0716836013
(1)

A building survey was carried out in 2005. The cowshed was described as being of late 18th century date. A date of 1767 and the initials WD (those of William Deedes, then owner of Ruffin's Hill) carved in stone above a door in the south-east wall are therefore probably associated with the date of construction. The building was extended in the late 18th or early 19th century and in the 19th century was used as stables. The building reverted to housing cattle 'in recent years'. (2) (3)

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

<2> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2005, Ruffin's Hill Farm, Aldington, Kent: An architectural and historical appraisal of the farmyard (Unpublished document). SKE18255.

<3> Kent Farmsteads Survey, 1991, Ashford, Aldington, Ruffins Hill Farm survey (Unpublished document). SKE30025.

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