Description

IFIELD ROAD
1
5387
(north-west side)
Vintners Wells
TQ 2440 6/15
II GV

2.
Early C16 open hall house altered in C17 and incorporating an early C17 barn at
south end. Two storeys timber-framed with white colour washed brick and stucco
infill. Some diagonal braces. Gabled tiled roof. At the northern end there is
a C16 gabled cross wing, the ground floor refronted in brick and the upper floor
tile hung. Four casement windows. The open hall was rebuilt in the C17 and a
chimney inserted. The cross wing has early C16 floor joists and a restored open
hearth fireplace. Kingpost roof in gabled cross wing. Jowls to upright posts.
Barn is of 3 bays with Queen Struts and clasped purling roof with straight wind
braces. Jowled posts. In the C19 the barn used to house the local fire engine.
(See Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 325. Joan M Harding "Four
Centuries of Charlwood Houses" pp 86 and 93).

Listing NGR: TQ2419540940

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540548

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