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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1566 15th cent farmhouse

Monument Types

• FARMHOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1400 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Description from record TQ 84 SW 12 :
(TQ 826408) Ponds Farm (NAT) (1) Ponds Farmhouse is probably of 15th century date and is a timber framed and close studded building with plaster infilling. It is of two storeys with attics and has a steeply pitched tiled roof. The first floor oversails and there is a modern porch. (2) Ponds Farm House. Grade II* Once called Pound Farm. On the map and on the Kent County Planning Officer's List called Pond Farm. (for full description see list) (3)

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
FRITTENDEN BUCKHURST ROAD TQ 84 SW (south side)
3/16 Ponds Farmhouse 9.6.52 II* House. C15 and mid C16. Timber framed and exposed close studding with plaster infilling. Plain tiled roof. Four framed bays; 2 of each period of building. Two storeys and attic, with continuous jetty, at lower level to right hand, and supported on brackets, with exposed truncated dragon beam to end right. Jettying returned to right. Hipped roof with moulded stack cluster to centre right. Two gabled dormers. Wooden casements of 2, 4, 2 and 3 lights on first floor, and 4 and 3- lights on ground floor. The casements to left on each floor are flanked by blocked mullioned sidelights. C20 gabled half timbered porch to centre right with plank and stud door. Outshot to left, red brick on ground floor with casement window, exposed studwork over. Right return with doubled wall plate (roof raised). Catslide outshot to rear of timber on brick base. Interior: structurally 2 builds. The right hand section older and orientated north-south, with double wave moulded beams; dragon beam now truncated, indicating cutting back of facade to align with east-west C16 extension. The doubled wall plate to this older wing points to alteration of roof structure to provide single hipped roof over whole rebuilt build- ing. Doubled main ports and scarfed plates join the 2 builds. Stack with large ground floor inglenook to C16 hall with simple chamfered beams. Ovolo and hollow chamfered mullioned windows, now facing into outshot. Chamgered rear door surround, also now to outshot. four centred arched fireplaces with indented spandrels. Quarter log stairs, especially to attic. Clasped purlin roof to C16 wing (earlier roof inacessible). Listing NGR: TQ8265840898 (4)

<1> OS 1:10000 1972 (OS Card Reference). SKE48157.

<2> DOE (HHR) Cranbrook Kent 1960 39 (OS Card Reference). SKE40178.

<3> DOE (HHR) Dist of Cranbrook R.D. Kent Nov 1960 39 (OS Card Reference). SKE40234.

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

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