Description

TQ 6059 WROTHAM KEMSING ROAD

7/46 Town House and East Lodge

GV II

House, divided into two dwellings. Circa early C17, remodelled and extended in Cl9 and C20. Timber-frame structure, the ground floor faced in Flemish bond red brick with vitrified headers and with brick string course at first floor level. Tile-hung above first floor. Ground floor front wall of right hand addition is stone rubble and red brick. Red plain tile hipped roof. Large stretcher-bond brick axial stack to left of centre with diagonal shaft at front and projecting English bond brick stack at end of rear wing of Town House, now truncated. Plan: The existing house is overall L-shaped on plan with 4 rooms in the main front range and a 1-room plan wing behind the left hand room with a Cl9 extension in the angle and a late C20 stair tower behind the room to the right of centre. There is a large axial stack between the left hand and centre left rooms, heating the 2 rooms and with a cross-passage running through the stack from the doorway of Town House at the front. The original C17 rear wing has an end stack with an oven. In the Cl9 the house was extended at the right hand end of the Main range, certainly the right hand room is an extension and the room to its left might be also. The house was also extended at the back in the Cl9 probably when it was divided into two dwellings, Town House occupying the left hand room, passage and rear wing and East Lodge the 3 right hand rooms of the main range. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window south front. All C20 two and three-light casements without glazing bars, in earlier small window openings. Doorway to left of centre with C18 or Cl9 fielded panel door, the top panels glazed and a flat canopy on shaped brackets. Interior: The left hand part, Town House: The ground floor left hand room has a chamfered axial beam without stops and there is a chamfered beam with ogee stops in the rear wing. The rear wing has a brick fireplace, its lintel replaced. Good 2-panel bolection- moulded door between the 2 rooms. On the first floor a C17 8-panel door and an early C18 fielded-panel door with a drop handle. The interior of the right hand section (East Lodge) has been completely modernised and no features have been retained. Roof: Soft-wood common-rafter roof with queen-post trusses and clasped purlins. Source: A plan of the Manor of Wrotham, dated 1620, shows Town House.

Listing NGR: TQ6096659064

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