Description

TR 04 SE BROOK PLUMPTON LANE
(South Side)

4/51
Naccolt Farmhouse
GV and walls attached
(formerly listed under the
27.11.57 parish of Wye)

II

House. Mid to late C17. Red brick in English bond, with plain tiled
roof. Three unit lobby entrance plan. Two storeys on plinth with
plat band, stepped up twice over doorway, with moulded kneelers to
roof with stack to centre left. Two glazing bar sashes on each floor
that to centre ground floor tripartite, and blocked window space to
left on each floor. Four panelled door to centre left with Tuscan
pilasters,frieze and pediment and projecting iron lamp bracket. Wooden
casements and glazing bar sashes to return elevations. Continuous
cat slide outshot to rear. Short stretches of wall to rear extending
from rear walls of house, that to north with single storey hipped outhouse
with 3 boarded doors. Interior: Baltic pine beams, moulded and painted.
Fine dog leg and half landing stair in hall with turned balusters
and flat moulded handrail, with boarded door with strap hinges on half
landing. Inglenook with salt cupboard and arches with decorative doors.
Service end divided from hall by horizontally planked timber wall,
with boarded doors and rectangular fanlights to separate dairy (with
brick floor) and slatted. dividing wall to cheesery. Upper floor
divisions of planking and wattle and daub. Staggered purlin roof.
The house is a larger and possibly earlier counterpart to Troy Town
House. Both share the same plan, a little archaic in this area by
the late C17 with up to date and even prodigious use of Baltic pine.
Extraordinary survival of fittings in this building (See Traditional
Kent Buildings, Vol. 5).

Listing NGR: TR0653742352

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26526462

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)