Description

TQ 64 SW PEMBURY TONBRIDGE ROAD

5/427 Fairthorne Cottage 19.6.86 II

Former farmhouse. Early C17 with C19 and C20 extensions. Timber-framed. Ground floor is underbuilt with C19 Flemish bond red brick with some burnt headers, particularly on the south side. Brick stacks and chimneyshafts. peg-tile roof.

Plan: House faces west. It is 2-rooms wide and 2-rooms deep. Central passage back to main stair. Right front room is the main parlour with a rear stack backing onto a small unheated larder behind. Left front room has an end stack,and kitchen behind has an axial stack.

Most of the house appears to be C19 and C20. C17 work is confined to the front right parlour which is complete right up to the roof. It seems unlikely from the quality of the craftsmanship that this was originally a one-room plan house but no evidence is exposed to suggest where the rest of the C17 would have been.

The C17 section is 2 storeys with an attic, the rest is 2 storeys.

Exterior: All 4 sides have irregular 2-window fronts of various C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars, some of them iron-framed. Front doorway in the centre of the west front contains a C19 plank door behind a C20 gabled porch. The right (south) range roof is at right angles to the front and taller than the other roofs. The front gable, the attic storey, is carried on a C17 moulded oak bressummer carved with bands of dentils, oval beads and billets. The roof over the entrance hall and left front room is parallel to the front with 2 crossroofs to rear, all gable-ended.

Interior: The C17 part is well-preserved although the wall framing is plastered over. Both floors have chamfered crossbeams with step stops and the plain joists are mostly original. The firepalces are blocked by C20 grates. 2-bay roof of tie-beam trusses with side purlins clasped by raking struts and with small windbraces. Around the rest of the house there is no exposed carpentry and all the features are C20.

Listing NGR: TQ6137243030

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