Description

TR 14 SE LYMINGE LONGAGE HILL
(south-west side)

4/152 Sibton Park

27.8.52 II *

House, now school. Circa 1602, with late C18 facade and alterations, and
work of circa 1898. Timber framed core. Facade buff brick in Flemish
bond. Plain tile roofs. Main range of 5 timber-framed bays. Rear return
wing to left of approximately 3 timber-framed bays and stack bay. Timber-
framed rear wing to right. C19 addition to right gable end, of two window-
bays in series with main range. Gap between two rear wings infilled in
stages. Front range 3 storeys. No visible plinth. Chamfered brick
plinth to left gable end. Plain parapet with ball finials, that to right
moved with right addition. Gabled roof. Projecting C17 brick gable-end
stack to left, with English-bond base and Flemish bond above. Formerly-
projecting C17 stack to original gable end. Regular 7-window front of 5
windows to main range and 2 to right addition. Twelve-pane sashes with
segmental heads to attic storey, that to centre of main range emphasised
by moulded immediate and outer surround and secondary dropped cill.
Twenty-four-pane sashes with straight heads and splayed rubbed brick
voussoirs to first floor, but tripartite sash to centre of main range.
Ground-floor windows similar to first-floor but with two sashes closely
flanking door, forming 8-window front in all. Central door to main range,
of six fielded panels, in panelled recess, with moulded architrave, plain
frieze and finely-dentilled and moulded cornice. Doric porch spanning
door and its flanking windows, with four columns, plain frieze, moulded
and dentilled cornice and flat roof. Plaque dated 1602 , said to denote
NS 1sM
Nicholas Sawkins, wool merchant. This is a C20 copy of the original plaque
which remains within the house. Rear return wing to left has same eaves
line as main range, but lower ridge; ground floor C19 red and grey brick
in Flemish bond, first floor tile-hung. Brick ridge stack in second timber-
framed bay from main range. Bell cupola with weather-vane between stack
and rear gable end. Three first-floor sashes. C19 additions running left
from rear of wing, part red brick, part tile-hung, returning forwards for
short distance with two gables. Rear wing to right of main range faced
with red and grey brick in Flemish bond with dentilled brick eaves cornice;
multiflue brick stack, beyond which eaves (but not ridge) are slightly
lower. Broad projecting brick stack to right side towards rear. Roof
half-hipped to rear. Gable end tile-hung on first floor. Narrow two-
storey parallel rear range to right addition, with rounded-headed staircase
window in right gable end. Curved single-storey flat-roofed bay infilling
angle between parallel rear range and wing, and extending into C20 brick
loggia. Interior: ground floor of main range divided into five bays by
ovolo-moulded cross beams with panelled soffits, each bay with two axial
beams and chamfered joists; position of original partitions uncertain.
Moulded four-centred-arched stone fireplace with vase stops, and enriched
wooden overmantel dated 1618 NS, to right end of room. Moulded stone
fireplace to left end. Front room of rear left wing has similar stone
fireplace dated 1616 with initials NS in shields in spandrels. Rear room
has large blocked inglenook fireplace to right wall, and tall C17 door of
eight fielded panels re-used from elsewhere in house. Moulded four-
centred arched stone fireplace re-used in front room of rear right wing.
Added right end room of front range has similar re-used fireplace with
NS to spandrels, flanked by six carved C16 or C17 wooden panels, four
depicting aspects of the life of St. Ethelburga, two linenfold; said to
have been obtained from Canterbury Cathedral. Three-light ovolo-moulded
mullion first-floor window to right side of rear left wing, and some
exposed framing. Chamfered axial beams. C18 panelled doors. Late C18
wooden fireplaces. C18 open-well staircase with turned balusters in
narrow parallel rear range, possibly moved there from elsewhere in house.
Stained glass quarries to rear right window.

Listing NGR: TR1555942064

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546029

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