Description

TQ 7444 MARDEN MAIDSTONE ROAD
(east side)

5/102 Church Farm House

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. C17 or earlier, with C19 facade. Probably
timber framed. Painted brick facade. First floor of right gable end
tile-hung, painted towards front. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on brick
plinth. Plat band. Dentilled brick eaves cornice. Hipped roof, hips
returning to right and left. Projecting red and grey brick stack in
English bond to left gable end, with tumbled brick shoulders, and
moulded brick base to truncated flue. Multiple red and grey brick
stack in front slope of roof to left of centre. Projecting red and
grey brick stack to right gable end, with tumbled brick shoulders,
and filleted flue with plain brick band to base and corbelled top.
Irregular fenestration of 3 three-light casements, one to left and
two to right of stack. Splayed painted brick voussoirs to left
ground-floor casement. Consoled cornices to two ground-floor French
windows to right. Ribbed door, also with consoled cornice, up two
steps immediately to left of stack. Rear return wings to left and
right with brick ground floors, weatherboarded first floors (except
tile-hung right side of right wing) and half-hipped plain tile roofs.
Four-light diamond mullion first-floor window to left side of right
wing. Central rear wing or turret shorter than, but adjoining left
wing, in similar materials and with hipped roof. Rear lean-to between
central and right wings. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7479844901

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26313831

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability