Former Granary, Attached Wall And Gate Pier To Se Of Ragstone Barn, Pevington Farm

Former Granary, Attached Wall and Gate Pier to South-East of Ragstone Barn, Pevington Farm, Pluckley

This is a former granary, probably originally with a cart store on the ground floor and later used as a studio. It dates from the early 19th century with some 20th-century refurbishment. The building is constructed of Kentish ragstone with red brick dressings, except for weatherboarding on the upper floor of the western side. It has a hipped tiled roof with a cast iron weathervane at the south end.

The building is roughly T-shaped and two storeys, except for the north-east spur which is single-storey. It is accessed by external stone staircases to the north-east and south-west.

The north T-range projects on the west side and features a two-light round-headed brick casement window on each floor with dripmoulding to the lower window. The remainder of the west side is set back and has three casement windows to the weatherboarded first floor, while the ground floor has been cement rendered with some 20th-century casement windows and doors. The north end has no windows. The north part of the east side has a projecting single-storey section. The remainder of the east side is two storeys with two openings with brick dressings to the north end at first-floor level, approached by a flight of stone steps.

Attached at the south-west end of the granary is a wall of Kentish ragstone with stone coping. At its western end stands a square brick gate pier in Flemish bond with a protruding course near the top and pyramidal stone cap, which forms the eastern gate pier to an enclosed farmyard.

The interior is reported to contain an oak roof with staggered purlins, though the interior has not been inspected.

Pevington Farm was an ancient manor granted to Bishop Odo of Bayeux after the Norman Conquest and appears in the Domesday Book. Since 1612 it was part of the Dering estate. Both the farmhouse and some farm buildings, including this granary, feature distinctive round-headed brick windows introduced to Dering estate buildings in the 19th century by the Eighth Baronet, Sir Edward Cholmeley Dering (1807-1896). This former granary and most of the farm buildings at Pevington Farm are shown on the 1871 Ordnance Survey map.