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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 74 NW 135
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:CROWPLAIN FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1300 to 1939


Grid Reference:TQ 7106 4738
Map Sheet:TQ74NW
Parish:COLLIER STREET, MAIDSTONE, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1300 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1344429: CROWPLAIN FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 74 NW (south-west side) Collier Street 4/87 Crowplain Farmhouse GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Possibly C14 or early C15, with late C18 facade. Left end rebuilt 1819. Right section timber framed, with chequered red and grey brick ground floor (extending slightly into left section), and tile-hung first floor. Left section red and grey brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roofs. Right section 2 timber-framed bays, formerly an open hall. Bay or bays to left of hall rebuilt in 1819, except short section adjoining hall. (Bay or bays to right of hall, if any, non-extant). Left section 2 storeys and cellar, right section 1 1/2 storeys. Plinth to right section, part ragstone, part brick. Dentilled brick eaves cornice to left section. Roof gabled to left. Steeply-pitched roof to right section, half-hipped to right. Slightly-projecting brick gable end stack to left. Multiple red and grey brick stack to left end of right section, immediately left of end of hall. Regular 3-window front to left section of recessed sashes, each unusually glazed with twenty-six staggered panes. Similar sashes to ground floor with cambered heads and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. Right section has two large gabled, early-to-mid C20 eaves dormers with applied timber framing, and three-light casements with staggered panes imitating left section. Panelled door with glazed top lights recessed in round-headed architrave with rubbed brick voussoirs, behind porch to centre of left section. Short two- storey red brick rear wing to left, of c.1926. Two-storeyed 1930's red brick- infilling to rear to right. Brick dated MG 1819 under right ground-floor window of left section. Interior: three pairs of principal posts with long shaped jowls and tie-beams. Arch brace to central truss springs from below inserted floor level. Rest of framing presently concealed. Roof not inspected. Folding panelled shutters to ground floor of left section.
Listing NGR: TQ7107647333 (1)

Additional reference (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040110 CROWPLAIN FARMHOUSE, YALDING File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/750 Labelled sheet of drawings of Crowplain Farmhouse, Collier Street, with sections A-A, B-B and A-B, and details of brace and tie-beam, and collar and rafter joints


<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.