Description

GOUDHURST MAYPOLE LANE
TQ 7237-7337 (east side)

15/224
Lower Maypole Cottage
GV II
House. C16 or earlier, altered c.1635 and c.1930. Timber framed and tile hung
on red brick base, in part in English Bond. Part exposed imitation frame with
plaster infill. Plain tiled roof that house origin, now 2 cell lobby entry.
Two storeys and garret with half-hipped roof with moulded stack cluster off
centre left. Three light, single and slight leaded wooden casements on 1st
floor, and 3 light and 5 light mullioned and transomed window (dated 1778) to
right on ground floor. Boarded door off-centre left. The exposed frame to
lower left is mid C20. Casement windows to return and rear elevations. Cat-
slide outshot to rear. Interior: right hand bay with moulded and brattished
dais, beams at both ends, the upper floor with 2 tie beams, that interrupted by
the stack will be stump of a crown post. A further framed bay to end right
indicated by framing, now lost. Newel stairs in catslide and fireplace bres-
summer dated 1635. Mullioned and transomed window signed in several places
'Lambert' and '78' (Lambert was recorded as glazier in C18).

Listing NGR: TQ7239737530

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26368597

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