Description

TR 03 NE ALDINGTON GOLDWELL LANE (west side) 4/41 Symnells and walled forecourt 13.10.52 GV II House. C16 or earlier origin, extended C16-C17 and re-fronted c.1800. Timber framed and clad and extended with red brick in Irregular English and Minster bonds, and front elevation rendered. Plain tiled roof. Hall house plan with accretions. Two storeys and attic on plinth with boxed eaves and Lion mask iron gutters to roof hipped to left, with 3 C19 gabled dormers and stacks to left, to rear centre right and projecting at end right. Four tripartite glazing bar sashes on 1st floor and 2 on ground floor with wooden casement at end left, and doubled panelled doors to centre right in projecting flat roofed porch. Rear right return and rear wing with exposed small panel timber frame with brick infill on high ragstone base. Main block right return with truncated C16 octagonal stack on stone corbels with relieving arch over, and brick moulded mullioned window surrounds, both cut into by large C17 stack cluster with dispersed brickwork. Forecourt or garden with C18 buttressed brick walls about 6 feet high at the house, returned and projecting and ramped down end again to openings halfway down length with short piers. Front wall of ragstone, about 3 feet high, with central wicket gate. About 50 yards by 25 yards in total dimensions. The house is reported locally to have connections with Lambert Simnel, (Pretender to throne 1487) and Erasmus (rector of Aldington 1512).

Listing NGR: TR0656737267

External Links

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