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Beckets Place

A Grade II Listed Building in Barming, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2558 / 51°15'21"N

Longitude: 0.4809 / 0°28'51"E

OS Eastings: 573215

OS Northings: 153665

OS Grid: TQ732536

Mapcode National: GBR PRC.8D3

Mapcode Global: VHJMD.9P3N

Plus Code: 9F327F4J+89

Entry Name: Beckets Place

Listing Date: 25 July 1952

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1060775

English Heritage Legacy ID: 174436

ID on this website: 101060775

Location: East Farleigh, Maidstone, Kent, ME16

County: Kent

District: Maidstone

Civil Parish: Barming

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Barming St Margaret of Antioch

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


RECTORY LANE
TQ 75 SW BARMING
(South Side)
2/11
25.7.52 Beckets Place
GV II

Farmhouse. C15, with C16 and C17 alterations. Timber framed, with plaster
infilling and plain tile roof. Open hall of one timber-framed bay, with
further very narrow bay or subdivision at south end, adjoining cross-passage.
Storeyed end bays, that to south end subdivided to contain undershot cross-
passage. Hall floored, probably with timber stack in the south end
subdivision, in C16 or early C17. Two storeys and garret, on painted stone
plinth. Close-studded. East elevation (Formerly rear, now front): north
gable end jettied. Underbuilt jetty to south gable end. First floor partly
rendered, with one arch brace to south end bay and one to cross-passage
subdivision. Roof half-hipped to south, hipped to north. Brick ridge stack
straddling south end of hall and cross-passage. Irregular fenestration of 3
windows; one 4-light diamond mullion window with pegged cill to south end
bay, one 4-light casement to hall, and one latticed casement with pegged cill
to north end bay. Tall blocked 5-light diamond mullion window towards centre
of hall; probably the north half of the C15 hall window. Ribbed door with
4-centred arched architrave to north end of south end bay, under open wooden
porch. Doorway with hollow spandrels to west end of cross-passage. Interior:
exposed framing. Moulded and brattished north end-of-hall beam with close-
studded partition under. Moulded and brattished spear with integral post and
panel under it, protruding from beam. Rebated principal posts to north end
of hall. Evidence for central "service" door or doors to south end room.
Chamfered axial beam and joists to inserted floor. Hall fireplace with
chamfered stone jambs and cambered wooden bressumer. C18 fireplace to south
side of stack, encroaching on cross-passage.


Listing NGR: TQ7321453710

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