Description

LAMBERHURST HASTINGS ROAD
TQ 63 SE & TQ 6635-6735
(south side)
5 & 9/168 Whisketts Farmhouse
GV II

House. C16 or earlier, clad mid C18 to mid C19. Timber framed, clad with red brick
on ground floor and ornamental tile hanging on first floor. Plain tiled roof.
Probable hall house origin. Two storeys and basement on plinth with hipped roof and
stacks at centre right and projecting at end left. Four 2 and 3 light leaded wooden
casements on first floor and three on ground floor of 2 and 4 lights. Boarded door
to centre right, basement opening to right. Single storey hipped C20 extension to
right. Interior: fully framed, roof rebuilt mid C18, but tie beams with crown post
mortices and soot blacking, possibly a smoke bay. Late C17 stack (C19 exterior), of
dressed sandstone with stone inglenook repaired with red brick. Fine cellar, stone
lined with stone steps and corbels to support floor joists and with flagstone and
old brick paviour floor with drainage channels and with raised surround to internal
spring basin.

Listing NGR: TQ6768635004

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26405726

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)