Description

HORSMONDEN MAIDSTONE ROAD
TQ 74 SW
(east side)
1/75 Castlemaine Farm Cottage
GV II

House. C16 or earlier altered and extended c.1802. Timber framed and part exposed
with red brick infill to left, otherwise clad with red brick and tile hanging with
plain tiled roof. Possible hall house origin. Two storeys and garret on plinth with
half-hipped roof and stack to centre left. Two 3 light wooden comments on each
floor and additional 2 light casement to right on ground floor. Boarded doer to
centre left in framed surround. Catslide outshot to rear left and single storey
hipped wing to rear right, dated: T M 1802. The old nine for the farm was
Badmonden, in reference (Bedesmen) to a cell of Beaulieu Abbey, Normandy, by 1414
transferred to Rochester Cathedral and suppressed 1540, (Hasted, vol.V,p.319).

Listing NGR: TQ7088642527

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609452

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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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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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)