Description

NETTLESTEAD MAIDSTONE ROAD
TQ 65 SE
(West side)
1/11
Nettlestead
23-5-67
Green House
(Formerly listed
as Green Farm
House)
GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C14 or early C15, with alterations of C16 or
early C17, C19 and 1920s. Timber framed, clad with weatherboarding.
Right gable end rebuilt in roughly coursed ragstone. Plain tile roof.
5 timber-framed bays open hall of 2 roughly equal-length bays, with
storeyed end bays, that to right with further integral narrow bay to
its right end. 2 storeys on ragstone plinth. Gable end jetty to left.
Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Brick stack in front slope of roof to
left end of right hall bay, and gable end stack to right. Irregular
fenestration of 4 leaded windows; one three-light casement to left end
bay, another in a weatherboarded through dormer with hipped plain tile
roof to each hall bay, and one small four-light diamond mullion window
with latticed glazing towards right end. Boarded door to right end of
right hall bay. Short two-storey weatherboarded 1920s rear wing to left,
with plain tile roof and brick stack. Interior: exposed framing.
Moulded and brattished left end-of-hall beam. Shaped jowls to principal
posts. Moulded central truss posts. Chamfered central tie-beam with
hollow-chamfered arch braces which would have met towards centre. Slender
moulded octagonal crown post. Chamfered cornice-beam extant along rear
wall of hall. Plain end-of-hall crown posts with foot braces. Two
chamfered pointed-arched service doors to right end of hall, and plain
architrave in same wall towards rear, to solid-tread stairs rising within
storeyed right bay. Chamfered cross beam and joists to inserted hall
floor. Brick fireplace.

Listing NGR: TQ6822651131

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26313803

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Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)