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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 76 SE 71 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | POLLYFIELDS FARMHOUSE, Detling |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1467 to 1968 Building consists of the former open hall and parlour end of a late medieval house. Surviving part is of Wealden form. Probably built during the period 1470-1500
Grid Reference: | TQ 7998 6026 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ76SE |
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Parish: | DETLING, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1467 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 76 SE DETLING SCRAGGED OAK ROAD (west side)
1/136 Pollyfields Farmhouse 26.4.68 (formerly listed under Bedhurst Road) G.V. II
House. Late C15 or early C16. Timber framed with rendered infilling, left end possibly rebuilt with studs painted on render, and C20 tile-hung gable. Wealden house of 4 bays with 2-by open hall, the left bay of which only about 4 feet long, right end bay storeyed, left end bay possibly rebuilt. 2 storeys, all but left end bay on plinth. Right end bay has bracketted jetty. Heavy cill to right bay of hall about 2 feet above ground cill, possibly base of hall window. Close-studded, with slightly more widely spaced studs on first floor. Curved braces to flying wall-plate, arch braces (left end painted) at end of each end bay. Roof hipped to right. Stack in front slope of roof, off-centre to left. Irregular fenestration of 3,2 and 3-light C19 or C20 casements. Ribbed door in narrow left end bay of former open hall, with simple-plain tiled canopy over. Rear lean-to.
Listing NGR: TQ7998760266 (1)
Description from record TQ 76 SE 33 :
Building consists of a formerly open 2-bay hall and upper end of a Wealden house probably built during the period 1470-1500. The service end was demolished and replaced, probably in the 20th century (2)
Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/01/228 Labelled sketch plan of the ground-floor of Pollyfields Farmhouse, Detling BF008568 POLLYFIELDS FARMHOUSE, DETLING
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #28359 Listed building, ] |
<2> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |