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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1600 to 1640. Church Farmhouse (17thc)

Monument Types

• FARMHOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1600 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TQ 65 NE 31 :
(TQ 65925781) Church Farm (NAT) (1) TQ 65 NE OFFHAM C.P. CHURCH ROAD (west side) 6/1 1.8.52 Church Farmhouse GV II* Farmhouse. C1620 (Dated 16??, but now partially illegible). Red and some blue brick, tile-hung on 1st floor on projecting gabled return wing to left. Plain tiled roofs with ridge stack to left and side-projecting breast with paired diagonal square stacks to left, (dated). T-shaped in plan. 2 storeys and garrets; slightly irregular 2 window front, all casements. 2 windows on ground-floor under left-hand gable. Door to right under gable, half-glazed. Door in right-hand end. Interior: 2 fireplaces in downstairs rooms, both with chamfered bressumers. Panelled room on 1st floor, with panelled beams and large two-storeyed fireplace with columns in upper tier. (2) Not mentioned in The Buildings of England. (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 NE OFFHAM C.P. CHURCH ROAD 6/1 (west side) 1.8.52 Church Farmhouse GV II*
Farmhouse. C1620 (Dated 16??, but now partially illegible). Red and some blue brick, tile-hung on 1st floor on projecting gabled return wing to left. Plain tiled roofs with ridge stack to left and side-projecting breast with paired diagonal square stacks to left, (dated). T-shaped in plan. 2 storeys and garrets; slightly irregular 2 window front, all casements. 2 windows on ground-floor under left-hand gable. Door to right under gable, half-glazed. Door in right-hand end. Interior: 2 fireplaces in downstairs rooms, both with chamfered bressumers. Panelled room on 1st floor, with panelled beams and large two-storeyed fireplace with columns in upper tier.
Listing NGR: TQ6598357335 (4)

<1> OS 1:2500 1978 (OS Card Reference). SKE48221.

<2> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge and Malling Kent May 1984 4 (OS Card Reference). SKE40412.

<3> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37841.

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

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