Description

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TQ 74 SE
3/98

STAPLEHURST
GOUDHURST ROAD (West side)
Rabbit Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Thorford Hall)

GV
II

Farmhouse. Early C18. Timber framed. Ground floor brick, first floor banded plain and fishscale tiles. Plain tile roof. Two timber-framed bays and central stack bay. Two storeys and garret. Half-hipped roof with gablets. Brick ridge stack towards centre. Irregular fenestration of three two-light casements. Boarded door in lean-to brick porch under stack. Dated brick South on stack. J M 1720

Interior: exposed framing, including quantity of re-used C16 or earlier timber. Brick fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Staggered butt purlin roof. Formerly known as Rabbit Farm.

Listing NGR: TQ7717541112

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26648645

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)