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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 54 NW 149
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:PAUL'S FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1450 to 1799

Grid Reference:TQ 54451 46130
Map Sheet:TQ54NW
Parish:LEIGH, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • FARMHOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1450 AD to 1799 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1258824: PAUL'S FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
LEIGH LEIGH 1. 5280 Ensfield Road (West Side ) Paul's Farmhouse TQ 5446 19/656 10.9.54. II* 2. Timber framed house of C16 or earlier. 2 storeys, 4 windows, irregular. Hipped tiled roof with lower eaves along right return possibly older. Compound ridge stack near left end and external stack at right. Jettied 1st floor. Front covered in C18 weatherboarding. Back and sides of tile hanging and brick. 1st floor C18 leaded iron casements. Ground floor C18 tripartite sash windows. 2-storey projecting porch has oversailing gable end with pendants, early C17 appearance. Carved spandrels to Tudor-arched doorway. Roll moulding and hollow chamfer to frame of inner door. Inside, ground floor ceiling beams, joists and plates richly moulded. Main roof has side purlins and wind braces, very heavy, close-set rafters. One original wood-mullioned window. Earlier Eastern part may have been a hall. Part of roof renewed C18. listing NGR: TQ5445246130 (1)

Description from record TQ 54 NW 8 :
(TQ 54454613) Paul's Farm (NAT) (2) 5280 LEIGH LEIGH Ensfield Road (West Side) Paul's Farmhouse TQ 5446 19/656 10.9.54. II* 2. Timber framed house of C16 or earlier. 2 storeys, 4 windows, irregular. Hipped tiled roof with lower eaves along right return possibly older. Compound ridge stack near left end and external stack at right. Jettied 1st floor. Front covered in C18 weatherboarding. Back and sides of tile hanging and brick. 1st floor C18 leaded iron casements. Ground floor C18 tripartite sash windows. 2-storey projecting porch has oversailing gable end with pendants, early C17 appearance. Carved spandrels to Tudor-arched doorway. Roll moulding and hollow chamfer to frame of inner door. Inside, ground floor ceiling beams, joists and plates richly moulded. Main roof has side purlins and wind braces, very heavy, close-set rafters. One original wood-mullioned window. Earlier Eastern part may have been a hall. Part of roof renewed C18. (3) Paul's Farm, 16th century framed house with continuous overhang and a two-storeyed porch that has settled at a rakish angle. All weatherboarded. (4)


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

<2> OS 1:2500 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48214.

<3> DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent Jan 1975 165 (OS Card Reference). SKE41011.

<4> Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 376 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37998.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #30629 Building, ]
<2>OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1972.
<3>OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Dist of Sevenoaks R.D. Kent Jan 1975 165.
<4>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent and the Weald 1980 376 (J Newman).