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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 55 NW 197
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:BRADBOURNE FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1680 to 1720

Grid Reference:TQ 52236 56377
Map Sheet:TQ55NW
Parish:SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Post Medieval - 1680 AD to 1720 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1086043: BRADBOURNE FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
BRADBOURNE VALE ROAD 1. 1614 (North Side) Bradbourne Farmhouse TQ 55 NW/3/101 13.4.51 II* 2. Circa 1700. 2 storeys. 5-window facade. Heavy projecting moulded modillioned eaves and gutter. Hipped tiled roof. 2 flat-roofed leaded dormers. Red brick with blue headers. Flat arches over windows of rubbed red headers. Coursed stone plinth. Painted brick band above ground floor windows. Sash windows with glazing bars in moulded exposed frames. Centre panelled door with fanlight over. Fanlight with tracery. Rounded pilasters on either side of door with open dentilled pediment above. Panelled reveals to doorcase. Up 2 moulded stone steps to door. Listing NGR: TQ5223756380 (1)

Description from record TQ 55 NW 41 :
(TQ 52195642) Bradbourne Farm (NAT) (2) 1614 BRADBOURNE VALE ROAD (North Side) Bradbourn Farmhouse TQ 55 NW/3/101 13.4.51 II* 2. Circa 1700. 2 storeys. 5-window facade. Heavy projecting moulded modillioned eaves and gutter. Hipped tiled roof. 2 flat-roofed leaded dormers. Red brick with blue headers. Flat arches over windows of rubbed red headers. Coursed stone plinth. Painted brick band above ground floor with entablature over with carved corona and enriched ovolo moulding. 1st floor with 2 tripartite sash windows with glazing bars to right and left and centre recessed brick panel. Painted figure of "The Black Boy" in centre supported on projecting triangular shaped bracket. Yard to rear of public house with various C16 or C17 gabled outbuildings. (3) Bradbourne Farm, Bradbourne Vale Road, near Riverhead. A delightful example of a common type; c. 1700. Red brick chequered with blue headers. Five bays. Two storeys. Hipped roof; dormers. Deep white cornice and white stringcourse. late 18th century doorcase. (4)


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

<2> OS 1:10000 1975 (OS Card Reference). SKE48160.

<3> DOE (HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks U.D. Kent. Sept. 1972 3 (OS Card Reference). SKE40333.

<4> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 518 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38012.

<5> Sevenoaks District Architectural History Group, 1986, Bradbourne Farmhouse, Bradbourne Vale Road, Sevenoaks (Article in serial). SKE29308.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #30223 Building, ]
<2>OS Card Reference: OS 1:10000 1975.
<3>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks U.D. Kent. Sept. 1972 3.
<4>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 518 (J Newman).
<5>Article in serial: Sevenoaks District Architectural History Group. 1986. Bradbourne Farmhouse, Bradbourne Vale Road, Sevenoaks. Arch Cant 103, 1986, pp. 238.