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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 65 SW 109
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:BARTONS FARMHOUSE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1388 to 1799


Grid Reference:TQ 6017 5400
Map Sheet:TQ65SW
Parish:PLAXTOL, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1373 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1204953: BARTONS FARMHOUSE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 SW and TQ 6053 PLAXTOL YOPPS GREEN 4/3 and 6/3 (west side)
1.8.52 Bartons Farmhouse
GV II
House. C18 elevation to earlier framed structure. Plinth and ground floor in coursed galletted rubble stone with red brick string separating the two. Painted weather-boarded first floor. Hipped plain tiled roof with 2 hipped dormers. Two storey 3 window front, modern casement windows. Central half-glazed door with flat projecting hood.
Listing NGR: TQ6017654008

Dendrochronology dating of the service wing gave a date range of 1373-1408. (2)
Dendrochronology dating of the hall range gave a date range of 1550-1573. (3)

Historic England archive material: BF040056 BARTONS FARMHOUSE, PLAXTOL 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. RCH01/048/01/531 Labelled sheet of drawings of Bartons Farmhouse, Yopps Green, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor and a fireplace jamb profile RCH01/048/03/071 Sheet of simplified floor plans of six Kent houses This is part of figure 68 in the book, showing plans a to f of Henikers, Sutton Valence; Parsonage Farmhouse, Aldington; Walnut Tree Cottage, East Sutton; Lower Newlands, Teynham; Hill Crest and Kent Cottage, Staplehurst, and Bartons Farmhouse, Plaxtol.


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

<2> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 21, Pg. 41 (Website). SKE17391.

<3> Vernacular Architecture Group, ADS Dendrochronology Database, Vol. 19, Pg. 49 (Website). SKE17391.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---XYMap: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #35960 house, ]
<2>Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 21, Pg. 41.
<3>Website: Vernacular Architecture Group. ADS Dendrochronology Database. Vol. 19, Pg. 49.