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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 94 SW 11
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:Cooper Farmhouse

Summary

c15th c with 19th c additions. Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1899


Grid Reference:TQ 91517 43947
Map Sheet:TQ94SW
Parish:PLUCKLEY, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • FARMHOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II*) 1145835: COOPER FARMHOUSE

Full description

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(TQ 91524392) Cooper Farm (NAT) (1) 5272 PLUCKLEY CHAMBERS GREEN ROAD Cooper Farmhouse TQ 94 SW 14/137 14.2.67. II* 2. The main portion is probably C15 timber-framed with plaster infilling, some close-studding and curved braces on the first floor. At the south-east end is a bay on both floors, containing windows of 2 tiers of 5 lights with wooden mullions and transoms and a small gable over, the ground floor window flanked by narrow windows. Hipped tiled roof. Four casement windows. At the south-east end beyond the bay is a C19 addition of one window bay, faced on the ground floor with stone rubble with red brick window dressings and quoins and above tile-hung. Dering windows (2). Cooper Farm, an end-jettied hall-house with bodly curved braces. Modified at the left end with Tudor close studding to a gabled dormer. (3)

Description from record TQ 94 SW 44:
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 PLUCKLEY CHAMBERS GREEN ROAD Cooper Farmhouse TQ 94 SW 14/137 14.2.67. II* 2. The main portion is probably C15 timber-framed with plaster infilling, some close-studding and curved braces on the first floor. At the south-east end is a bay on both floors, containing windows of 2 tiers of 5 lights with wooden mullions and transoms and a small gable over, the ground floor window flanked by narrow windows. Hipped tiled roof. Four casement windows. At the south-east end beyond the bay is a C19 addition of one window bay, faced on the ground floor with stone rubble with red brick window dressings and quoins and above tile-hung. Dering windows. Listing NGR: TQ9151743948 (4)

Formerly TQ 94 SW 37

Historic England archive material: RCH01/048/01/553 Labelled sheet of drawings of Cooper Farmhouse, Pluckley, with a ground-floor plan, a section, a crown-post elevation, tie-beam and cross-rail profiles, and a perspective sketch of the original front doorway

Additional reference (5)


<1> OS 1:2500 1973 (OS Card Reference). SKE48215.

<2> DOE (HHR) Boro of Ashford Kent Oct 1980 169 (OS Card Reference). SKE39819.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 466 (OS Card Reference). SKE37903.

<4> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<5> 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>OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1973.
<2>OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Boro of Ashford Kent Oct 1980 169.
<3>OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 466.
<4>XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #34075 Listed building, ]
<5>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.