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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 84 SW 198 |
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Type of record: | Listed Building |
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Name: | BALCOMBE FARMHOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1799
Grid Reference: | TQ 82076 40916 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ84SW |
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Parish: | FRITTENDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
FRITTENDEN BUCKHURST ROAD TQ 84 SW (north side)
3/12 Balcombe Farmhouse 20.6.67 GV II* House. C15, altered C16 and C18. Timber framed and clad with red brick and tile hung on first floor. Plain tiled roof. In plan a truncated 3-bay Wealden. Two storeys and attic on plinth with the 2 hall bays to right recessed, the eaves carried on brackets. Hipped roof with gablets (especially marked to right), and with 1 hipped dormer and moulded stack cluster to rear left. Truncated stack at end right, the base in English Bond, originally with bread oven, now single storey extension. Two 3-light and one 2-light wooden casements on first floor, two 3-light and central tripartite glazing bar sash on ground floor. Door of 4 panels to centre left with trellised porch. Extended left return with wooden casements and glazed doors. Interior: framing details suggest this was never a full Wealden plan, but either built adjacent to a now lost earlier service wing, or always a single wing Wealden (suggested by Mason. Framed Building of the Weald, 1964 as a genuine sub- type). Dais screen of lapped vertical boarding with brattished beam and integral four centred arched doorway (to parlour), with central C19 doorway but through. Rear through passage doorway survives. Ceiling beams with late C16 ovolo and cavetto mouldings. Early C19 doors with strap hinges and boarded partitions. Double arch-braced spere truss to main hall solar frame. Tall (5½ feet) octagonal moulded crown post roof, on simple and hollow chamfered cambered tie beams of large scantling.
Listing NGR: TQ8187240967
Formerly TQ 84 SW 23 (1)
Formerly an open 2-bay hall and upper end of a Wealden house. The medieval services were demolished and replaced probably in the late 16th century with a wing behind the upper end. (2)
Historic England archive marterial (3)
<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.
<3> Historic England, Archive material associated with Balcombe Farmhouse, Frittenden, Listed Building (Archive). SKE57096.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
<2> | Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent. |
<3> | Archive: Historic England. Archive material associated with Balcombe Farmhouse, Frittenden, Listed Building. |