Description

GOUDHURST HORDEN
TQ 74 SE
2/197 Little Horden
GV II
House. Circa 1600, altered and extended C18. Timber-framed and clad with red and
blue chequered brick on ground floor and tile hung on 1st floor, with plain tiled
roof. Two storeys and garret on English Bond brick plinth with pilaster butt-
resses to corbelled cornice to 1st floor, with moulded wooden eaves cornice to
swept roof, half-hipped to left, hipped to right. The end right window bay a
later rebuilding. Tall, moulded stack to rear centre left. Originally regular
fenestration of 2 three light wooden casement on each floor, with central 2 light
on 1st floor, and central door of 6 panels with hipped hood. Single casement on
1st floor to right, and paired casements on ground floor. Catslide outshot to
rear. Interior: tongue-stopped chamfered spine beams and chamfered gunstock-
jowled main posts to frame, originally eccentrically braced. Clasped purlin roof,
with alterations, the original roof with raised-cruck like principal rafters.
Some early plank and muntin doors survive.

Listing NGR: TQ7559340316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481993

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)