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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 86 SW 98 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | POLEHILL FARMHOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1984. The building consists of the lower end & former open hall of a late medieval house. The surviving parts are of Wealden form. Likely to date from the second half of the C15
Grid Reference: | TQ 8004 6034 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ86SW |
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Parish: | DETLING, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1470 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 86 SW DETLING SCRAGGED OAK ROAD (east side)
2/134 Pol ehill Farmhouse
G.V. II
House. C16. Timber framed, ground floor clad in red brick in English bond to right, gault brick to left, first floor rendered, right gable tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys, roof hipped both ends. L-plan brick stack with top rebuilt in gault brick, off- centre to right. Small projecting stack left end. Irregular fenestration of C20 2-light casements. C20 half-glazed door beneath stack under C20 gabled rustic porch. Another C20 half- glazed door in C20 brick extension to left.
Listing NGR: TQ8005060340
Description from record TQ 86 SW 26:
The building consists of the lower end & former open hall of a late medieval house. There is evidence for an upper end now demolished. The surviving parts are of Wealden form. Likely to date from the second half of the C15 (2)
Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/01/227 Labelled sheet of drawings of Polle Hill Farm, Detling, with a ground-floor plan, a crown-post elevation, and a dais beam section BF008566 POLLE HILL 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> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
<2> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |