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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1799

Monument Types

• FARMHOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 NW SHELDWICH ASHFORD ROAD (west side)
1/63 Colbrahamsole Farmhouse and 24.1.67 garden wall
II
House. C15 and C18. Timber framed clad with red brick. Exposed close studding with plaster infill on right return. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with 2 wings to rear. Two storeys on plinth with parapet to hipped roof with stacks at end left, centre left and projecting and offset at end right. Four segmental headed glazing bar sashes on first floor and 3 on ground floor. Door of 6 panels, the top 2 glazed, to centre left, with moulded surround and fluted frieze to flat hood on brackets. Right return: continuous jetty with dragon posts on flint footings, 1 three light and 1 five light beaded ovolo mullioned windows, and small gabled attached pigeon loft. Rear left: truncated projecting and offset stack of flint, with tumbled-in brickwork and base of moulded star-shaped flues, and C19 bread oven projecting at base. Interior: crown post roof with smoke blackened timbers. The brickwork and a timber in the kitchen are dated 1749; a window dated 1729.
Listing NGR: TR0098656434 (1)

Formerly TR 05 NW 32

Dendrochronology dating (of the roof?) gave a date of 1508. (2)

Formerly open 2-bay hall with 3-bay upper end cross wing to the north and in-line lower end (much rebuilt) cross wing formerly jettied at front and side. The lower (south) end was formerly jettied at end. Additional rear range behind lower end built in the 16th century and later extended. 17th century rear wing to the west of original one. A new facade in brick was constructed in the 18th century. (3)

Historic England archive material (4)

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

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 23, Pg. 57 (Website). SKE17391.

<3> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

<4> Historic England, Archive material associated with Cobrahamsole Farmhouse, Sheldwich, Listed Building (Archive). SKE56483.

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