Kings Toll Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1954. Farmhouse. 5 related planning applications.

Kings Toll Farmhouse

WRENN ID
white-gravel-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Tunbridge Wells
Country
England
Date first listed
20 October 1954
Type
Farmhouse
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kings Toll Farmhouse is a former farmhouse dating from the late 17th and early 18th century, with substantial extensions or rebuilding occurring in the late 18th and early 19th century. The building is constructed with a timber frame, the ground floor underbuilt in brick (now painted), and the first floor tile-hung. It has a peg-tile roof and brick stacks.

The house faces east and has a three-room plan, with the two south rooms heated by a back-to-back fireplace in an axial stack, and a room at the north end heated by an end stack. A redundant hip in the roof suggests the original plan was two bays, and the north end is a later addition, possibly serving as a service block with a cellar and separate entrance. A disused lobby entrance is located against the axial stack, potentially dating from this addition. The current entrance is centrally located, leading into a late 18th/early 19th century staircase. There have been late 20th century internal alterations, including changes to the partition between the two north-end rooms.

The east front is asymmetrical, with four windows and two doors centrally positioned. A 20th-century door is set within a gabled porch hood on the left, while a 19th-century panelled door, also with a gabled porch hood and rectangular overlight, is on the right. Late 18th/early 19th century sash windows are found throughout; the ground floor left window is tripartite with 12 panes in the centre and 4 in the outer lights, while the first-floor left window also has 12 panes. Other windows have margin glazing. The rear elevation features a hipped-roof projection on the left, likely an original stair projection to the attic, and a mix of 20th-century windows.

Inside, the centre room fireplace has a truncated chamfered lintel, and the late 18th/early 19th century staircase has a turned newel and stick balusters. The roof over the south end is from the late 17th/early 18th century, retaining staggered butt purlins. The location of the redundant hip is above the entrance hall. Roof timbers beyond the axial stack have been renewed.

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