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Latitude: 51.1784 / 51°10'42"N
Longitude: 0.3513 / 0°21'4"E
OS Eastings: 564448
OS Northings: 144753
OS Grid: TQ644447
Mapcode National: GBR NQT.5LY
Mapcode Global: VHJMQ.1NL1
Plus Code: 9F3259H2+8G
Entry Name: Farm Office Approximately 1 Metre North of Lydd Farmhouse
Listing Date: 9 May 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1253484
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436711
ID on this website: 101253484
Location: Capel, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN12
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Capel
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Tudeley cum Capel with Five Oak Green
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Agricultural structure
TQ 64 SW CAPEL SYCHEM LANE, FIVE OAK GREEN
5/287 Farm Office approx lm north of
9.5.90 Lydd Farmhouse
GV II
Former farm office, now used as a workshop and store. Mid/late C19. Timber-
framed, clad with weatherboards; brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Unusually ornate farm office, deliberately picturesque. Single storey
one-room plan building built in front and to left of Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.).
Front gable-end faces north west with porch on the right (south western) side
at the front. Rear gable-end stack.
Exterior: Front gable end has C19 casements with glazing bars, one on top of
the other. Gable has cusped bargeboards with timber finial and pendant.
Porch to right has front and back segmental arches on shaped imposts. The
outer (right hand) side is open and filled with a wooden trellis. Above this
level, on all four sides are rectangular fixed pane windows with margin panes
of coloured glass. Small modillion eaves cornice. Deep eaves supported by
shaped brackets on the corners and tall splay-footed spire-like roof with a
weathervane at the apex. Doorway beneath contains C19 part-glazed and similar
double doors in opposite long wall.
Interior: Not inspected.
This former office adds considerable interest to the group of attractive
traditional farmbuildings around Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ6444844753
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