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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 65 NW 137 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | WROTHAM WATER FARMHOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899. Elizabethan House
| Grid Reference: | TQ 6296 5977 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ65NW |
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| Parish: | WROTHAM, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT |
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Monument Types
- FARMHOUSE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)
Full description
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Description from record TQ 65 NW 25:
[TQ 6296 5978] Wrotham Water (NAT) (1) Two bee-boles, probably Elizabethan, are built into a dismantled chimney-stack on the south wall of the mainly Elizabethan house at Wrotham Water. (2) Wrotham Water is a brick two-storeyed house of c.1700 date; it is of little architectural interest. The so-called bee-boles are a later addition, in a similar brick, to the south front of the house. Property of the National Trust. GP: AO/59/188/8.(3) TQ 65 NW WROTHAM C.P. WROTHAM WATER ROAD (west side) 5/17 Wrotham Water Farmhouse II Farmhouse. C16 in origin with C18 and C19 elevations. South front: Red and blue brick with tile-hanging in gables of end return wings. Half-hipped plain tiled roof with 2 hipped dormers and 2 ridge stacks. 2 storeys and attics; irregular fenestration of casement windows. Central door. Steep-pitched catslide extension to rear with projecting wing to right and C20 brick porch to left. (4) Not mentioned in The Buildings of England. (5) TQ 629597. Wrotham Water. 260 acres, mainly farmland given by a friend of the Trust in 1947. (6)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 65 NW WROTHAM C.P. WROTHAM WATER ROAD 5/17 (west side)
Wrotham Water Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C16 in origin with C18 and C19 elevations. South front: Red and blue brick with tile-hanging in gables of end return wings. Half-hipped plain tiled roof with 2 hipped dormers and 2 ridge stacks. 2 storeys and attics; irregular fenestration of casement windows. Central door. Steep-pitched catslide extension to rear with projecting wing to right and C20 brick porch to left.
Listing NGR: TQ6314959882 (7)
<1> OS 6" 1936 (OS Card Reference). SKE48337.
<2> Arch Cant 69 1955 93 (OS Card Reference). SKE35454.
<3> F1 CFW 26-FEB-64 (OS Card Reference). SKE42770.
<4> DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling 1984 48 (OS Card Reference). SKE40372.
<5> Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37841.
<6> Properties of the Nat Trust 1978 104 (OS Card Reference). SKE48742.
<7> Field report for monument TQ 65 NW 25 - February, 1964 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3362.
<7> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: OS 6" 1936. |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: Arch Cant 69 1955 93. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 26-FEB-64. |
| <4> | OS Card Reference: DOE (HHR) Dist of Tonbridge & Malling 1984 48. |
| <5> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng W Kent & the Weald 1980 (J Newman). |
| <6> | OS Card Reference: Properties of the Nat Trust 1978 104. |
| <7>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #36315 farmhouse, ] |
| <7> | Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 65 NW 25 - February, 1964. |
