Description

GOUDHURST CRANBROOK ROAD
TQ 7237-7337 (north side)

15/149
Little Holt (formerly
11.3.82 listed as Jetwells)
II
House. C16, clad and extended C18 and C19. Timber-framed core, clad and extended
with red brick on ground floor and fish-scale and plain tile hanging on 1st
floor. Plain tiled roof. Originally 4 bay lobby-entry range, now much extended
by irregular additional wings. Left return (garden front) probably original
entrance front, 2 storeys and attic with half-hipped roof, 2 flat roofed dormers
and stack to centre right. Two glazing bar sashes and central wooden casement on
1st floor. French doors, sash and door sized glazing bar sash in ground floor.
Two storey gabled extension projecting at end left, with single glazing bar sash
on 1st floor, and tripartite on ground floor. Present entrance front gable end of
main range, 2 storeys and attic, with half-hip to left projecting gable to centre
right, and gabled main roof. Stack to left, to centre and to end right.
Modillion eaves cornice to right and block (ie the rear wing to the main range).
Six glazing bar sashes to 1st floor, with 1 to attic to left, and 3 taller glazing
bar sashes on ground floor, with gauged heads, and canted bay with glazing bar
sashes to central gabled projection. Door of 2 moulded panels and glazed upper
panels to centre left, with traceried semicircular fanlight in Doric porch, with
fluted pilasters and moulded frieze and cornice (a late C20 reproduction or
insertion replacing Victorian gabled porch). Interior: C16 roll moulded ceiling
joists of good quality reported in front (ie garden) range.

Listing NGR: TQ7329437859

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26431997

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)