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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1732

A loose courtyard plan farmstead with buildings to three sides of the yard.

Monument Types

• FARMHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1700 AD to 1732 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CLIFFE-AT-HOO CP CHURCH STREET TQ 77 NW 14/8 East side 21.11.66 Quickrills - II
House. Early C18. Red brick with plastered coved cornice to plain tiled roof with gable parapets and end stacks. Two pedimented dormers. Two storeys with attics; regular five window front, glazing bar sashes with open boxes. Central six-panel door with moulded surround and flat hood over on carved acanthus brackets. Interior: Early C18 staircase with turned balusters. Various rooms with moulded dado panelling.
Listing NGR: TQ7360076405

Description from record MKE83270:
Type: Loose courtyard with working agricultural buildings on three sides
Farmhouse: Farmhouse detached in central position
Position: Located within a village
Survivial: Only the farmhouse remains
(1-2)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe Parish. The report states: "By the late 18th century Cliffe consisted of a two long rows of houses and cottages along both sides of Church Street with housing continuing along the north side of Rye Street (later Reed Street) and outlying grouping along West Street…Wharf Farm farmhouse at the end of Wharf Lane survive from this period…The 18th century a period of seemingly renewed affluence for much of the Peninsula, is also comparatively well represented by a number of red-brick, two-storeyed buildings: No 185 Church Street with 19th century shopfront; Quickrills, also on Church Street, with gable parapets and end stack; The Red House on Reed Street with timber modillioned eaves cornice; and the farmhouse of Wharf Farm at the end of Wharf Lane formerly separated from the village but now linked by recent housing." (3)

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

<1> Forum Heritage Services, 2012, Kent Farmsteads & Landscape Project (Unpublished document). SKE18075.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Historic Farmsteads: A Manual for Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE18076.

<3> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31591.

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