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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 05 NW 139 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | SAFFERY FARMHOUSE |
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Summary
Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1499. Saffrey Farmhouse (15th c)
| Grid Reference: | TR 02972 57796 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR05NW |
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| Parish: | SELLING, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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Description from record TR 05 NW 13:
[TR 0295 5778] Saffery Farm [NAT] (1) Saffery Farmhouse, Grade II*, Owen's Court (East side). 15th century,now house pair, but in single occupation. (For full description see list.) (2)
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 05 NW SELLING OWEN'S COURT (east side)
1/24 Saffery Farmhouse 27.8.52 GV II*
House, now house pair but in single occupation. C15. Timber framed on flint base and exposed with plaster and painted brick infill. Plain tiled roof. Hall house with jettied cross-wings, 4 framed bays in all. One storey and attic centre range and projecting 2 storey jettied cross wings to left and to right, that to right partly underbuilt. Close studded to wings and, in part, to central hall range. Hipped projecting wings left and right. Stacks to centre right and projecting at end left and end right. Two gabled dormers to centre, 1 wooden casement on each wing upper storey, wooden casements to left, to centre and to centre right in position of original screens passage entry on ground floor. Interior: crown post roofs to all 3 ranges, tall octagonal with moulded bases and capitals. Dais beam, and 2 service doors in screens passage (carved heads now plastered over), moulded 4 centred arched rear screens passage door). Listing NGR: TR0297257796 (5)
<1> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.
<2> DOE(HHR) Swale Boro Kent Nov 1986 8 (OS Card Reference). SKE41196.
<2> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
<3> Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent (Ed Pevsmer) 1983 455 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE37790.
<4> David Tarr, 2013, Saffrey Farmhouse, Owens Court, Selling, Kent ME13 9QN: Assessment of Historical Significance of the Building and of the Fabric Affected by Proposals for its Alteration (Unpublished document). SKE32409.
<5> 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 1:10000 1972. |
| <2>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #34168 Listed building, ] |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: DOE(HHR) Swale Boro Kent Nov 1986 8. |
| <3> | OS Card Reference: Bldgs of Eng NE and E Kent (Ed Pevsmer) 1983 455 (J Newman). |
| <4> | Unpublished document: David Tarr. 2013. Saffrey Farmhouse, Owens Court, Selling, Kent ME13 9QN: Assessment of Historical Significance of the Building and of the Fabric Affected by Proposals for its Alteration. |
| <5>XY | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. [Mapped feature: #34168 Listed building, ] |
