Description

TQ 74 SW MARDEN GOUDHURST ROAD (west side)

3/53 Loves Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C15 or early C16, partly rebuilt c.1726. Restored, with addition to right, 1986. Timber-framed core. Front elevation red and grey brick in Flemish bond. First floor of left gable end tile-hung. Plain tile roof. Storeyed C15 or early C16 cross-wing of 2 timber- framed bays, to left. Addition or, probably, rebuilding to right, of one timber-framed bay and stack bay, flush with front gable end of wing. 2 storeys, on chamfered brick plinth. Boxed eaves. Wing roof hipped to front and rear, hips returning to right along C18 bays. Multiple brick ridge stack to left of centre. Regular 3-window front of two three-light and central two-light casements. Ribbed door with flat corniced hood under stack. Single-bay brick addition of 1986 to right end. Stack dated A . Interior: exposed framing to first I M 1726 floor of wing, with tension braces, gunstock-jowled posts, chamfered wall-plates and tie-beams and chamfered cambered central tie-beam with solid-spandrel arch braces, moulded fillet and formerly with crown post. Chamfered cross-beam to ground floor. Axial beams of smaller scantling to right section. Ground-floor fireplaces with rendered brick jambs and wooden bressumers.

Listing NGR: TQ7364741881

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)