Bishops Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. A C17 Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Bishops Farm House

WRENN ID
kindled-corbel-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1967
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bishop's Farm House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century, possibly with an earlier core, and has 19th-century alterations. The building features a timber frame, with red brick in stretcher bond on the ground floor to the left and painted brick to the right. The first floor is rendered on the left, with close-studded framing under the stack and to the right. It has a plain tile roof and a lobby-entry plan consisting of approximately two timber-framed bays and a central stack bay, with the left bay being longer than the right.

There is a parallel rear range to the left, extending beyond the gable end of the main range, which may date back to before the 17th century. The house has two storeys and an attic, with gabled roofs. The eaves of the left gable jet out on a moulded bressumer supported by shaped brackets. The right gable features projecting wall-plate ends that carry the verges with plain bargeboards. A multiple red and grey brick ridge stack is located slightly to the right of the center.

On the front, there are two large close-studded gabled eaves dormers, each with bargeboards, pendants, and jetties on a moulded bressumer, flanking the stack bay. The left dormer stops short of the left gable end and has shaped brackets and plastered coving under the jetty. Each dormer has a single casement window in the center of a blocked three-light mullion window. The fenestration is irregular, featuring three windows: a three-light 19th-century casement with top lights on the left timber-framed bay and a two-light paned casement on the stack bay.

To the right timber-framed bay, there is a close-studded two-storey canted bay with a head under the jettied dormer, which has an eight-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor, along with side-lights on the first floor. The entrance consists of panelled double doors under the stack, within a red and grey brick porch with a hipped roof. At the rear, there is a lean-to. The rear range has red and grey brick on a stone plinth on the ground floor and is tile-hung on the first floor. It is also two storeys high, gabled to the left with an end stack, and features one three-light casement window on each floor, the ground floor window having a segmental head, along with a boarded door to the right end. The interior has not been inspected.

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