Description

YALDING TQ 74 NW Collier Street 4/84 Martins Farmhouse GV II

Farmhouse. C15 or early C16 with later alterations and early C20 facade with applied date 1721. Timber framed. Brick in stretcher bond to right end of ground floor, rest pebbledashed. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays; two-bay open hall, with storeyed bay to each end. 2 storeys, on high brick plinth. Underbuilt gable end jetty to left. Exposed arch-braced tie-beam, and studding of thin scantling with herringbone brick infilling, to right gable end. Roof hipped to left, half-hipped to right. Projecting gable end stack to left, and ridge stack to right end of left hall bay. Two rectangular first-floor bays to front elevation, one to left end and another to right hall bay, each pebbledashed with exposed corner posts and rails, rising above eaves with hipped plain tile roof. Right bay, at least, may be partly C17. Irregular fenestration of four windows; one bipartite sash (two panes per sash) in moulded architrave to each rectangular bay and another to right end. Small two-light leaded casement to left hall bay. Two large early C20 canted bays to ground floor (under first-floor bays). Ground floor built out between bays, to take panelled door with ogee top light and flanking leaded lights with ogee heads, under corbelled triangular wooden canopy. Brick rear wing to left and rendered rear wing to right. Interior: broad axial joists to left end room, morticed for partition, and with stair trimmer to rear right corner. Moulded right end-of-hall beam. Tension-braced first- floor left end-of-hall partition. Shaped jowls to principal posts. Rebated central truss posts with cambered tie-beam, chamfered arch braces and fillet. Right end bay has pair of principal posts suggesting former subdivision into two narrow bays; tie-beam non-extant. Roof not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7161345282

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