Old Farm Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1989. House.
Old Farm Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- veiled-tracery-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1989
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farm Farmhouse, also known as Dunks Farmhouse, is a house that dates back to the 16th century, with extensions from the early 17th century and cladding from the 17th to 18th centuries. A late 20th-century wing has been added. The house is timber-framed on a sandstone base and is clad with red brick, using English bond for the rear wing, while the first floor is tile hung. The roofs are plain tiled.
The main elevation features two storeys and a basement on a plinth, with a corbelled string course at the first floor level. The roof has an oversailing hip-end on the right side of the rear wing and a large, moulded and filleted stack cluster on the left end. On the first floor, there are four wooden and metal casements arranged in 1, 3, 2, and 3 lights, along with a single light and two 3-light casements on the ground floor, and a 3-light wooden casement to the right in the outshot. The central right door has six moulded panels and a rectangular fanlight, set within a porch that was rebuilt in the 19th century and features moulded bargeboards. The base of the porch is inscribed with "W H 1606".
Originally, the front of the house extended at least one bay to the left, as indicated by internal evidence of fireplaces in the left face of the stack. The rear right wing, built with an English bond brick base, was rebuilt in the 19th century and is also two storeys high, featuring a stack on the right side and a large freestanding stack on the rear right elevation made of English bond brick. This wing has stepped gables adorned with pendant and finial enrichment, and three octagonal flues flanked by moulded stone mullioned windows.
The interior of the rear wing includes a tenoned purlin roof with wind braces, some of which are in an ogee form. The main range has a deeper clasped purlin roof with wind braces, diminished principals, and arched braced beams. Both ranges contain inglenooks, with the one in the main stack of the front range being particularly large and featuring bread ovens in the right-hand outshot. Throughout the house, there are stop-chamfered beams, many of which have classical scroll enrichment. The property also includes brick-lined cellars.
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